Tassel
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: White linen tassel with one circular base attached to attached to a slightly larger, pear-shaped base (hanging below). Cores are braided over with linen yarns worked in groups for a basket-weave effect. Around the bases hang tiny braided balls and from the bottom of the pear-shaped base hang a few longer clusters of the tiny braided balls.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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: 1962-51-68
objectType: label: Type
content: trimmings
label: Type
content: Tassel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen Technique: braided and knotted
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 15.9 x 4.8 cm (6 1/4 x 1 7/8 in.)