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Linen Coif. Circa 1660.

This exceptional and rare example of a ladies coif is embroidered in polychrome silk and metallic thread on a linen ground. Insects, pansies, strawberries, cornflowers, leaves and a single bird at the centre back, worked in blue, red, pink, yellow, green and ivory silk threads in detached buttonhole stitch, enclosed within silver gilt coiling stems; drawer string closure.

References: Matching forehead cloth in the victoria and Albert Museum. T.76 - 1911.