Coif
date: label: Date
content: late 16th–early 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1962-53-4
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Coif
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: 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
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22.2 x 21 cm (8 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)