Smoking cap
Category
Costume
Date
1850 - 1900
Materials
silk, velvet and cotton
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349907
Summary
Smoking cap - Made from blue/ivory/black silk velvet with a voided brocaded pattern and line with green cotton. It is trimmed with a stylised pattern of flowers and leaves around the bottom and on the top made up of silver sequins and coiled gold wire on a padded base of cream wool. It has a long gold tassel of coiled wire on the crown. In his notebook 'Days Far Away' (SNO.MISC.958) Charles Wade describes his grandmother's neighbor, Mr Ellis, a retired tobacconist who would wear a smoking cap. Wade includes a small sketch of a smoking cap alongside this entry. (page 5)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade