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Not currently on display at the V&A

Hood

1600-1630 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A woman's linen hood embroidered in blackwork speckling with black silk in a design of scrolls and flowers, with linen bobbin lace trimming.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Linen, embroidered with silk; hand-sewn and embroidered, linen bobbin lace
Brief description
A woman's hood embroidered with floral design, bobbin lace trimming, Britain, 1600-1630
Physical description
A woman's linen hood embroidered in blackwork speckling with black silk in a design of scrolls and flowers, with linen bobbin lace trimming.
Dimensions
  • Front edge length: 53.8cm
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
John Lea Nevinson, Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Textiles, London: HMSO, 1938, p.83, plate LVII
Collection
Accession number
T.135-1924

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Record createdJanuary 22, 2003
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