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Wedding Bonnet

1851 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bonnet made of straw trimmed with horsehair embroidered lace. Twisted and split straw braid. The bonnet brim and crown are made in one and the lower edge is deeply curved. The different types of straw braid alternate and there is a looped device at the crown. The lace is arranged to trim the brim and form the bavolet. Lined with stiffened cotton and shaped with wound silk covered wire.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Braided straw and horsehair embroidered lace, lined with cotton and shaped with silk covered wire
Brief description
Bonnet made of straw trimmed with horsehair embroidered lace, made in Great Britain, 1851
Physical description
Bonnet made of straw trimmed with horsehair embroidered lace. Twisted and split straw braid. The bonnet brim and crown are made in one and the lower edge is deeply curved. The different types of straw braid alternate and there is a looped device at the crown. The lace is arranged to trim the brim and form the bavolet. Lined with stiffened cotton and shaped with wound silk covered wire.
Credit line
Given by Mrs Bessie Miller
Object history
This bonnet is associated a white ruffled muslin dress and petticoat, (T.367 & A-1988) linked with the marriage of Eliza Sneath to Joseph Candlin in Sheffield in 1851.
Collection
Accession number
T.366-1988

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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