Pincushion
Category
Costume
Date
1761
Materials
Metal, Silk
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349999
Summary
Cushion; Pincushion - Made from blue/green silk damask and ruby satin with metal pins in a design on the blue/green side of roman numerals 'II' and 'III', the date 1761 and remnants of another design. The red side shows a design of a flower surrounded by 2 crowns, a flower and a heart. The seams are enclosed by wavy lines in pins.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade