Silk pocket or purse
date: label: Date made
content: 1875 - 1900
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Purse or pocket - rectangle with two top corners cut away in a curve to form a handle that would hang on a belt. Not an undergarment pocket. Made of a striped silk that resembles tie silks; Striped dark and light browns with thin dark and light blue stripes repeating vertically every 2"; light blue crocheted border sewn to unfinished edges of pocket; two pieces sewn together at top and bottom to form pocket.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0642.002
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0642.002
label: accession number
content: 1990.0642
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pocket
label: Object Name
content: Purse
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: royal blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pale blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gray (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: twill weave; satin weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/8 in x 4 7/8 in; 21.9075 cm x 12.3825 cm