Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Strands of silk and metal thread woven in an ornamental pattern around a cotton core. a] black silk and silver thread - b and d] silver thread - c and e] gilt thread - strands of silk and metal thread wrapped around a small core are twisted together to form a larger cord.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- after 1850
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase in memory of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- Medium
- Medium: silk, metal thread and cotton
- Type
- trimmings
- Cord
