Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

CAPELET; TIPPET; PALLATINE

Date Range From

1840

Date Range To

1880

Materials

LACE, SATIN, COTTON

No. Pieces

1

Length

95.0

Width

29.5

Description

CRESCENT MOON SHAPED; OUTSIDE EDGE IS SCALLOPED. CONSISTS OF A CREAM COLOURED PIECE OF SATIN, UNDERNEATH BLACK LACE. THE BLACK LACE HAS FLOWERS EMBROIDERED INTO IT. THE EDGES OF CAPELET ARE TRIMMED IN A WIDE BLACK LACE (DIFFERENT FROM ABOVE). BACK OF PIECE IS LINED WITH A BURLAP MATERIAL, UNDERNEATH BLACK COTTON. BLACK COTTON HAS MULTIPLE HOLES IN IT - POSSIBLY INSECT RELATED. LONG, BIAS STITCHES ARE EASILY VISIBLE ON FRONT AND BACK.

Subjects

CLOTHING-OUTERWEAR

Historical Association

PERSONAL CARE

History

USED OVER THE SHOULDERS OF A WOMAN. PALATINES WERE USED IN THE 1840S; NAMED AFTER CHARLOTTE OF THE PALANTINE, WHO TRIED TO INDUCE MORE MODESTY IN DRESS. SEE P19920058006-GA FOR HISTORY. *UPDATE* IN 2015 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS, INCLUDING ONE DONATED BY MARJORIE WELCH'S MOTHER, NORA EVERSON. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHERLOCK/MACLEOD FAMILY, SEE RECORDS P19960108000 AND P19740093000.

*UPDATE* IN 2021 TWO COLLECTIONS ASSISTANTS, RYLEY GELINAS AND O. E., CONDUCTED AN AUDIT OF THE ROLLED TEXTILE COLLECTION, INCLUDING SEVERAL TEXTILES DONATED BY MARJORIE AND JACK WELCH. ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2021, GELINAS INTERVIEWED PADDIE WALMSLEY, THE DONORS’ DAUGHTER, ABOUT HER PARENTS’ DONATION AND HER MEMORIES OF THE OBJECTS OF THIS DONATION, INCLUDING THE NIGHTSHIRT. WHILE WALMSLEY WAS UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THIS SPECIFIC CAPE, SHE DID REMEMBER HER GRANDMOTHER, NORA EVERSON, WITH SHAWLS: “I DO HAVE MEMORIES OF HER WEARING SHAWLS, INTRICATE SHAWLS LIKE THAT.” THE ITEM, WALMSLEY BELIEVED, LIKELY CAME DOWN THROUGH THE FAMILY. “SHE WASN’T A REALLY HANDY TYPE OF GRANDMA… GRANNY E WAS MORE NO-NONSENSE… SEWING AND THAT INTRICATE [DETAIL WORK] – I DON’T RECALL HER DOING THAT, NO.” SHE ALSO SUGGESTED THAT SHAWLS, SIMILAR TO THIS ONE, WOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT IN STORAGE TRUNKS AT HER PARENTS’, THE DONORS’, HOUSE FOR SAFEKEEPING. HER PARENTS “WOULD BE SORTING THINGS OUT, YOU KNOW, AND MOVING IT FROM ONE TRUNK AND PUTTING IT SOMEWHERE ELSE.” SOMETIMES THE DONORS WOULD BE PACKING THE ITEMS FOR A MOVE OR JUST LOOKING THROUGH THE ITEMS: “MOM WOULD GO THROUGH IT AND […] HER AND DAD LIKED THAT KIND OF THING GOING THROUGH AND CHATTIN’ ABOUT THE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING.” “THEY LOVED BEAUTIFUL THINGS” WALMSLEY SAYS OF HER PARENTS AND “MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, HAD A BEAUTIFUL HOME WITH THINGS ON DISPLAY AND IT WAS ALWAYS THINGS, YOU KNOW OF, NOT VALUE, BUT THINGS OF IMPORTANCE TO HER.” WALMSLEY STATED THAT OBJECTS OF THE COLLECTION WERE DONATED TO THE MUSEUM BY HER PARENTS AS A WAY TO PRESERVE THE HISTORY: “SHE [MARJORIE WELCH] KNEW THE VALUE OF HISTORY AND THAT WAS KIND HER THING… AND MOM JUST WANTED, WOULD WANT SOMEBODY ELSE TO ENJOY THEM, AND YOU KNOW, TO KNOW THE HISTORY AND SEE IT.”

Catalogue Number

P19920058014

Acquisition Date

1993-11

Collection

Museum

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