Cap streamers
date: label: Date
content: 1700–1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design shows serpentine garland of floral and foliated forms, accentuated by intermittent parallel bands; interpretation of a French pattern. Drawnwork combined with embroidery; outlined by cordonnet.
place: label: made in
content: Europe
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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: 1962-50-56-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: lace
label: Type
content: Cap streamers
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen Technique: deflected element work -Sheer plain weave fabric placed on top of a denser plain weave fabric with the warps and wefts of each aligned -Pattern outlined by a closely couched cord -Sections of the back layer of fabric cut away -Deflected element work (wrapping stitches using a needle which pulls warps and wefts of the foundation fabric out of alignment to produce openwork) in various patterns -Deflected element work on two layers of fabric for details -Edges finished with buttonhole stitch
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 51.5 x 12.5 cm (20 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.)