£95
Embroidered European ladies’ caps and bonnets or traditional head coverings, and costume decoration: To include a triangular forehead cover, very finely worked with a mix of coloured braids and hand embroidery on glazed cotton, stylised designs with different fillings to regular shapes, one band almost Sol lace, ten circular embroideries in cream thread with added colour, a middle band with undulating outer edges and differently filled centres and a final area in the triangle point with similar designs of increasing size, all using cream threads and colour, backed in the dark glazed cotton and bound in red cotton to one side and floral cotton to the other, the longest side not being bound, perhaps The Balkans?; a cotton cap with distinctive black silk embroidery in the shape of a cap back, a section of white embroidery in between the dark panels*, two different panels of machine lace, pleated, attached, possibly later, beneath the panel with gold embroidered black velvet panels with red stones to each side, these panels backed with a floral pink woven silk ribbon, the black cap panel worked centrally within a cream cotton triangle, embroidered in black silk to just one point; a cream cotton cap for an adult embroidered in red and blue with floral sides and linear panel to the top and front border, gathered to the back with a circle of crochet inserted; another triangular cotton panel appliqued with a linen panel this time in brown silk and a section in cream, the left side and the long edge are hemmed, the right side raw; an incomplete cutwork panel with white embroidery, selected motifs outlined in red or pink silk thread (Tyrolean?), with inner cutwork containing elaborate and very fine fillings; and a short jacket in a coarse red fabric, the short sleeves and bottom border with the addition of black linen incorporating a woven silk band in white and yellow, the garment is embroidered with white beads, probably African, on the shoulders, sleeves, down the front edge, and covering the back, mainly linear in design with the addition of larger green glass beads adding detail (6) *
*Unusual composition. See page 109, of “Embroidery” by Mary Gostelow, showing a similar mix of whitework and dark threads, Austrian Whitework. (Shipping category C)
All in good used condition
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24% inc VAT*
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27.6% inc VAT*
