Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Woman's coif of off-white linen, with a point over the forehead, shaped at the cheeks, and with a pleated detail at the crown. Embroidered in light colored silks and metal threads with scrolling vines in silver metallic thread framing flower heads, among which appear caterpillars, bees and insects, embroidered in in red, pink, green, blue, yellow and gray silk. The ground is spotted with silver sequins stitched down with red thread.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- late 16th–early 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1962-53-4
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Coif
- Medium
- Medium: silk and metal-wrapped silk-core embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, coral, leaf, and chain stitches with looping and detached looping on plain weave foundation Label: linen embroidered with silk and metallic threads in stem, coral, leaf, chain, and detached looping stitches
- Dimensions
- H x W: 22.2 x 21 cm (8 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
- made in
- England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1962-53-4
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f54d96da-a8a9-4154-988b-8e7b2cbedd4d
