Pair of gloves, 1620–29, British, Leather, satin worked with silk and metal thread, spangles; long-and-short, satin, detached buttonhole, couching stitches; metal bobbin lace; silk and metal ribbon, L. 13 1/2 x W. 6 1/2 inches (34.3 x 16.5 cm), Textiles-Embroidered, The rich brown leather of these gloves is unusual; most surviving gloves from the seventeenth century are lighter in color. However, the motifs embroidered on the gauntlets—pea pods and blossoms—were quite common during the period
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Pair, gloves, 1620–29, British, Leather, satin worked, silk, metal thread, spangles, long, short, satin, detached buttonhole, couching stitches, bobbin lace, ribbon, L, 13 1/2 x W, 6 inches, 34.3 16.5 cm, Textiles-Embroidered, rich, brown, leather, unusual, surviving gloves, seventeenth century, lighter, color, motifs embroidered, gauntlets—pea pods, blossoms— quite, common, period
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