Nightcap
Category
Costume
Date
1840 - 1860
Materials
Cotton
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348947
Summary
Cap; Nightcap - Cotton machine knitted. Ribbed, turned back cuff 3.25 inches (83mm) deep. Knitted in one piece with four lots of shaping to a point at the top. Cotton tassel on top. Possibly made by Holdstein's of Norwich. Charles Wade catalogue No. B.8. 'Nightcap, white stockinette with simple tassel. 1808-20'. Cost 1/- from Davidson.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade