Bonnet
Miss Lincoln
Category
Costume
Date
1840 - 1850
Materials
Textile
Place of origin
Yarmouth
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349755
Summary
Bonnet - Made from purple silk velvet with a crown lining of cream silk stamped with the maker's name 'MISS LINCOLN, milliner, Broad Row, Yarmouth'. The brim is lined with the same velvet overlapped from the outer edge and pleated to fit. The crown is a circle of double layer stiffened leno (3). The brim is a different weight of leno atamped with '4'. The brim is edged with cane. The centre of the bonnet is decorated with tubes of velvet stiffened with wire with small ostrich plumes dyed to match. There is a garland inside the brim of silk tulle edged with blond and moss rosebuds of cream and pink cotton and pressed and painted cotton leaves on wire stems pinned in. There are long ties of silk velvet ribbon shaded from pink to purple. (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manaor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade
Makers and roles
Miss Lincoln, milliner
References
Mackenzie 2004: Althea Mackenzie, Hats and Bonnets from Snowshill, One of the World's Leading Collections of Costume and Accessories of the 18th and 19th Centuries, National Trust 2004, pp. 42-43.