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Man’s At-home Capfirst half of 18th century

Not on view
Embroidered textile cap in cornflower blue with ivory and silver metallic arabesques, scalloped metallic lace trim, and a geometric brown and blue woven interior lining
Close-up of textile embroidery on blue silk ground, featuring a central bilobed motif worked in woven metallic silver thread, surrounded by raised floral and leaf designs in cream-colored silk satin stitch.
Embroidered textile detail on teal ground, featuring a double-lobed motif worked in interlaced silver and metallic threads with a scalloped beaded border, surrounded by raised peach satin-stitch floral scrollwork at the edges.
Title
Man’s At-home Cap
Place Made
Europe
Date Made
first half of 18th century
Medium
Silk plain weave with silk and metallic-thread embroidery, and metallic-thread lace trim
Dimensions
Overall: 8 5/8 x 10 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. (21.9075 x 26.67 x 16.8275 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number
M.2007.211.826
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.
  • Blanco F., José and Mary D. Doering, eds. Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, vol. 1, Pre-Colonial Times Through the American Revolution. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016.