Nightcap
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1730
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Man's nightcap with a rounded crown and turned-up brim. The fabric has a green silk satin ground with a woven pattern of flowers and arabesques in cream silk. The brim uses a different section of the same fabric, patterned with rabbits, fruit, trees, and addorsed birds. Touches of salmon and silver embroidery accent both areas.
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: Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1951-105-31
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Nightcap
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic (silver metal foil wound onto white silk core) Technique: two interconnected structures of 4\1 satin and plain weave (lampas), embroidered in surface satin stitch Label: silk lampas, embroidered with silk and metallic yarns
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 21 x 27.9 cm (8 1/4 x 11 in.)