Mitten
Category
Costume
Date
1850 - 1870
Materials
Machine-knitted silk, feather stitch embroidery.
Measurements
480 x 70 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 604969.2
Summary
A woman's mitten from a pair of mittens, made from machine-knitted cream silk. The elbow-length mitten is decorated across the main ground with openwork panels of diamond and chevron motifs and there are additionally three lines of feather stitch embroidery across the mitten back.
Provenance
Gift of Miss Ward