Cap
Category
Costume
Date
1850 - 1900
Materials
Silk, Silver, Wool
Place of origin
Balkan Mountains
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350427
Summary
Cap made from ?wool and silk and ?wool cored silver thread. It is lined with pink beige silk and is machine quilted. It is decorated with 2 rows of coins around the edge of the cap all with Arabic inscriptions. There are traces of a floral design overall, possibly printed. possibly belonged to a muslin woman rather than a Roman Catholic from Albania. (female)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor