Bonnet
- Object Name:
- Bonnet
- Object ID:
- 2001.010.07
- Place of Origin:
- Rochester, NH, area
- Date:
- 1840-1850
- Description:
- Calash (collapsing bonnet). Green silk. Lined with off-white silk, and with brown pollished cotton. Filled with cotton batting. Bottom ruffle of same green silk fabric, basted and pinned to hood. Chin tie (green silk ribbon) pinned on. Some buckrum visible along base edge. Shape formed with wooden hoops (visible through the holes), and other hoops that are wrapped with thread. Hand sewn.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk
Cotton - Provenance:
- Sarah R. Hatch is donor's great-great-grandmother.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha Blaisdell York
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