C1865-1870 TAN RIBBED SILK & BROWN VELVETEEN BONNET

C1865-1870 TAN RIBBED SILK & BROWN VELVETEEN BONNET

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1865-1870 soft crown bonnet from the Texas Civil War Museum collection. Made from a tan ribbed silk, the bonnet is styled with a high brim gathered over wire and bound with brown velveteen. The wire is shaped to create scallops on the edge of the brim. The soft crown is gathered into a narrow oval tip made of brown velveteen edged with twisted tan and gold velvet piping.  The self-fabric bavolet is gathered over a cord, the lower edge bound in brown velveteen. The bavolet is lined in orange silk twill. A multi-looped bow sits at the front of the crown behind the brim. It appears that another ornament, possibly flowers, were attached at one time to the center of the bow. Self-fabric bonnet ties.

A manufactured ruche made from multiple rows of tightly-gathered cotton bobbinet is sewn inside the brim of the bonnet, framing the face. The badly-deteriorated silk lining has separated from the bonnet, revealing a layer of wool batting used as padding to help retain the soft crown’s shape. A circular label remains attached to the shattered silk lining. The label shows a figure of a woman wearing a low-body dress over a crinoline, with the words “Miss Dot Lou, Do-Well Hats, Paris.”


Condition: Fair. The exterior fabric is good; some trim is missing; bobbinet ruche is crushed and discolored; lining badly shattered.    [cs][ph:L]

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