Wedding bonnet
Category
Costume
Date
1865 - 1870
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349772
Summary
Wedding bonnet - Made from cream horsehair, alternating flat and crimped braid, handsewn in a spiral. The lining is cream silk georgette. It has a wire frame and is trimmed with a circle of pleated cream satin ribbon edged with cream Bedfordshire Maltese lace. There are cream rosebuds frosted with glass beads on the band and right hand side of the bonnet (SNO.TC.1127) and small mauve trumpet flowers. There is a frill of tulle and cream satin ribbons. (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade