Cape
date: label: Date
content: 1770–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Full cape with a hood whose fullness radiates from a tight group of pleats at the back of the head. Cotton has a small-scale design of exotic floral forms in the Indian style in brown, blue, green, yellow, red and violet with small amounts of reserved white, on a dark gold ground. Bordered all around with a wide gathered band of the same fabric. Lined with coarse dark blue cotton, resist-printed with a thin white stripe.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-72-1
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Cape
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 162 x 289 cm (63 3/4 x 113 3/4 in.)