Child's gown
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Dress or coat cut without fullness. Has opening from neck to bottom and long sleeves. Foundation 2 & 2 twill weave nearly covered with white linen embroidery (using satin, overcast cord, back, herringbone, laid work, coral, knot, buttonhole, and detached chain stitches) in design of flowers, leaves, and fruit worked solidly in ornamental stitches. Binche lace sewed in neck at bottom of sleeves and of dress.
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: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Cohen in memory of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-93-73
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Child's gown
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, cotton Technique: embroidery (satin, overcast cord, back, herringbone, laid work, coral, knot, buttonhole, and detached chain stiches)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 60 x 45 cm (23 5/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: width taken at hem