Bonnet
Category
Costume
Date
1840 - 1850
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349754
Summary
Bonnet - Made from burgundy ribbed fabric of wool and silk and maroon satin. It is lined with cream silk with a matching bavolet. The brim is unlined. Thre is a frill of silk tulle edged with blond on silk covered straw plait frame inside the brim. It is constructed on a cloth crown stiffened with black cotton net. The satin brim is ruched onto 4 rows of wire with bands of cloth over gathering stitches. It is trimmed with matching red feather decoration over the crown and along the sides of the bonnet. Wade maroon silk ribbons hang from the points and it fastens with narrow cream silk ribbon ties Cf. Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' pg.191 (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade