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Bib

1920-1929 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Child's bib of unlined buff-coloured cotton with a 'piecrust' edge worked in red thread using buttonhole stitch. The centre front of the bib is hand embroidered with a motif of a mokey playing bilboquet, worked in red thread using stem stitch; the bib fastens at the back of the neck with a pearlised button and a thread loop.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Embroidered cotton
Brief description
Child's embroidered cotton bib; France, 1920-1929
Physical description
Child's bib of unlined buff-coloured cotton with a 'piecrust' edge worked in red thread using buttonhole stitch. The centre front of the bib is hand embroidered with a motif of a mokey playing bilboquet, worked in red thread using stem stitch; the bib fastens at the back of the neck with a pearlised button and a thread loop.
Dimensions
  • Total at centre length: 37.75cm
Credit line
Given by Mr. and Mrs. Ruben
Object history
Worn by one of the donors, Mrs Ruben (née Madeleine Lavigne in 1921) and her younger sister Marie-Thérèse (born 1927).
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
B.156-1999

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Record createdJune 21, 1999
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