Bertha

Iridescent brown silk bertha, Mount Lebanon, NY

1870-1890

Object ID:
1959.11185.1
Community:
New York, Mount Lebanon
Description

Brown silk with a four button front. Top two buttons are closures, button two are faux. Blue glass buttons. Iridescent silk shot cloth, contrasting colors in warp and weft give a third color with luminous lights. Orange and blue to form brown cloth. Trimmed in black machine lace at bottom edge and 1 1/2" down from neck.

New York Mount Lebanon

New York Mount Lebanon

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