Evening cape
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1918
Materials
Silk, wool, metal thread, velvet ribbon and jet
Measurements
1000 x 1500 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 602983
Summary
Woman’s over skirt. Black embroidered silk/cotton net cape with gold metal-thread lace edging (metal wrapped silk core with wool), trimmed with black mock-jet beadwork. Finished at the wasit with doubled-over black silk velvet ribbon that extends to form the tie at CF of the waist. The lower front edges are trimmed with two beaded jet tassels.