Mitten
Category
Costume
Date
1800 - 1840
Materials
Machine-knitted silk.
Measurements
240 x 60 mm
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 602656.1
Summary
A woman's mitten from a pair of mittens, made from machine-knitted cream silk. The mitten is extensively decorated, with a diamond motif on the wrist and fingertips and openwork panels on the hand and thumb. A small handwritten label stitched onto an inner seam reads, "Rea", the donor.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs Rea.
Marks and inscriptions
Stitched on inner seam at wrist.: A small cotton tape label stsiched to the upper seam reads, "Rea". See associated photograph for further details.