Red beaded hat with brown velvet ties
date: label: Date
content: 1940s
name: label: Attributed to
content: Helen Smith-Mason, American, 1911 - 1985
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A red beaded cap with brown silk velvet ties. The outer layer of the cap is composed of four wool twill triangular pieces that are herringbone stitched to each other with dark brown wool yarn. There is a single dart on the right and left front of the hat. Dark brown and light brown wool yarn are looped together at center top, forming a squatchee. Each red panel of wool fabric is hand embellished with light brown cross stitches and seed beads – silver glass seed beads for the proper front left and proper back right panels, and black glass seed beads for the proper front right panel and the proper back left. A brown silk velvet fabric tie is sewn to the bottom of the back left and right triangular panel. The hat is lined with four plaid synthetic taffeta pieces that are handstitched together and stitched to the outside of the hat with a Herringbone stitch. The plaid lining is blue, red, yellow, and green. There is no label, but the name "HELEN MASON' is hand sewn in the CB interior lining.
label: Cataloging Notes
content: This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Craftsmanship
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Fashion design
label: Topic
content: Millinery
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Black Fashion Museum Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Fashion and Historical
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2007.3.607
objectType: label: Type
content: hats
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wool twill with wool yarn, glass beads, silk velvet, and synthetic taffeta
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 25 × 9 × 7 × 12 1/2 in. (63.5 × 22.9 × 17.8 × 31.8 cm)