Coif
date: label: Date
content: late 16th–early 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Woman's off-white linen coif, with a point over the forehead, shaped at the cheek, and with a pleated detail at the crown. Embroidered in black silks and gold metallic yarns in a pattern of scrolling branches framing flower and fruit clusters among which birds, butterflies, snails and rabbits appear.
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: 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: 1962-53-3
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Coif
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, silk, metallic (metal-wrapped silk-core yarns) Technique: embroidered using running, seeding (speckling), stem and couching stitches on plain weave Label: linen embroidered with silk and metallic yarns in runnning, speckling, stem and couching stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22.9 x 21 cm (9 x 8 1/4 in.)