Falcon's hood
date: label: Date
content: early 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Brown tooled leather hood shaped to fit the head of a falcon. The sides are decorated with panels of rose red velvet embroidered with silver metallic yarns and faceted metal beads. At the top, a tassel of rose red silk is bound in silver metallic yarn. The edges are bound with green silk braid. With leather tabs for fastening.
place: label: made in
content: England or 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 through gift of Elsie De Wolfe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1950-90-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Falcon's hood
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Label: tooled leather, silk velvet embroidered with metallic yarns and metal beads, silk tassel
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10.2 × 7 cm (4 × 2 3/4 in.)