bonnet
Report a Mistake- Date Made Circa 1880 - Circa 1885
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- Object Number D-1088 a
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- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Ontario
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, headwear
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1875/01/01
- Latest 1890/12/31
- Materials Silkworm silk, Metal, Textile
- Measurements Height 26.5 cm, Width 21.2 cm, Depth 11.9 cm
- Caption Comments on this bonnet
- Additional Information Mourning bonnet with stiffened black buckram foundation covered with coarse black silk net, embroidered in an all-over floral pattern outlined in small black bugle beads. Narrow, turned-back brim tapers from top centre to lower edge and is covered with ruched black silk net. A wide, black, silk lace edging, whose scalloped lower edge is formed by long leaf motifs, has been gathered to form a fan decoration which has been tacked over the central area. A similar, smaller fan of lace has been placed on top in the central back neck area. The same lace is used to trim the central front area and has been manipulated to form three central vertical fans, with a flat fan at each end. Tucked in and around this trim are purple silk poppies with fuzzy green buds and smooth green stems. Bonnet strings are wide, black, silk twill weave ribbon, with circle motifs of opposite direction twill weave. French lining is black, lightweight, plain weave. Six small hat pins with blued metal shafts and a variety of small, moulded black glass heads (in the shapes of acorns, star trefoils, flowers) were found pinned in different places on the hat.