Mitten
Category
Costume
Date
1860
Materials
Machine-knitted silk net.
Measurements
290 x 85 mm
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 602652.1
Summary
A woman's mitten from a pair of mittens, made from machine-knitted black silk net. The mid-length mitten is decorated on the upper seam, wrist and fingertips with a variety of mixed geometrical motifs, with a further densely embroidered raised diamond motif in three lines on the mitten centre back.