Nightcap
Cooper Hewitt

Nightcap

18th century

Medium: silk, metallic yarn (metal foil wound around silk core) and flat foil strips Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocaded) Label: silk and metallic brocade
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Tall man's nightcap with deep bicorne cuff in salmon-colored ribbed silk, brocaded with a symmetrical floral design in silver metallic yarns and blue, green, yellow, pink, and white silks.

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