Baby dress
Harriet Chapman
Category
Costume
Date
1861
Materials
Lace and lawn cotton
Measurements
420 mm (H); 220 mm (W)
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Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1152518
Summary
Baby's dress. Donation. A baby's dress dated 1861 made of undyed bleached cotton plain weave lawn. Trimmed with bobbin needlelace cotton edging; 2 buttons and buttonholed loops. Hand sewn, collar, neck, waist (4 tapes) and sleeves adjusted with tapes, gathered from yoke, back fastening skirt open.
Provenance
Donated to Erddig in 1988.
Makers and roles
Harriet Chapman, maker