GUSN-73848
Silk with horizontal bands of bright blue and cream; patterned vertical band of lampas; wide band; busy pattern with serpentines and areas of red ground with cream floral. Smaller areas of teal background with cream floral; some edged in red; dark blue areas with cream Persian characters. Brown and cream serpentine run along sides of pattern with scalloped border; smaller band is sectional repeat of larger band; tiny vertical ribweave stripe of red and cream. Waistband of same material lined with rust wool and darted; mid-calf hemline; two inch wide black velvet tie closure at back; waistline smocking at center front and back left and right.
aprons (protective wear)
lampas (textile material)
silk (textile)
velvet (fabric weave)
Apron
Apron
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.6279
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