Cuff
Category
Costume
Date
1650 - 1700
Materials
Silk, Silver thread
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350612.1
Summary
One of a pair of cream satin cuffs lined with linen. They are cut in two pieces and handstitched. They are trimmed with a trailing leaf design in brown and pink silk floss and couched silver metal thread. There are bunches of knots consisting of coloured silk and white linen cord, rust, sea green and purple. On one in ink is written ' Os N (or A)s Os As 6'.
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor
Marks and inscriptions
' Os N (or A)s Os As 6'. (written in ink on one)