About This Artwork

Man's Cap, Late 16th century

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt-strip-wrapped silk, and metal paillettes in ladder and stem stitches; couching and buttonholed couching; edged with bobbin lace
Approximately: 14 x 17.8 cm (5 1/2 x 7 in.)
Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne, 1931.261