Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- White linen tassel with long braided stem attached to a pear-shaped base. Core is braided over with linen yarns worked in groups of seven for a basket-weave effect. Around the base hang tiny braided balls and from the bottom hang a few clusters of the tiny braided balls.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 17th century
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- Medium
- Medium: linen Technique: braided and knotted
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14.6 x 4.4 cm (5 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
- Type
- trimmings
- Tassel
