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Child's short cape made from white-colored cotton decorated with whitework embroidery and eyelets along scalloped hem and fronts. Body of cape decorated with repeating scroll of whitework grapevine and fruit (eyelet holes form individual grapes in bunches).
capes (outerwear)
cotton (textile)
whitework
broderie anglaise
Cape
Cape
"Designed and embroidered by my grandmother- Lura Burgess Thomas- in 1904."
1299.191
Thomas, Lura Burgess (Maker)
Gift of the Joan Pearson Watkins Trust
2015.62.191
United States
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