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A work made of linen(?), plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and gilt and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped thread in detached buttonhole, buttonhole filling, stem, chain, ladder, threaded back (italian link), holllie, and ceylon variation stitches; plaited braid.

Coif

c. 1600

England

England

Linen(?), plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and gilt and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped thread in detached buttonhole, buttonhole filling, stem, chain, ladder, threaded back (Italian link), Holllie, and Ceylon variation stitches; plaited braid

Textiles