Maid's cap
Category
Costume
Date
1900 - 1940
Materials
Cotton lawn, whitework embroidery, drawn thread work, cotton velvet.
Measurements
90 x 420 mm
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 602994
Summary
A woman's cap for a maid, made from white cotton lawn. The cap is machine-embroidered across the main ground in a pattern of squares and has an applique diamond-shaped lawn insert centre front decorated with whitework embroidery and drawn thread work. This acts as a channel for a black cotton velvet ribbon, which is used for both decoration and fastening.