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| DRESSY BONNETS |
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| 1855 summer sheer silk bonnet timmed in self fabric shirring and bow |
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| Brown silk 1860's shirred crown,brim and curtain. with bows |
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| 1860's brow silk inner brim floral trims. The brim is lined with loosely pleated sheer silk & flowers. The back crown shows the remains of the silk lining that covered the entire interior of the bonnet. |
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| 1855 Blue Corded Fancy Winter Bonnet Trimmed in a blending silk fabric and self fabric bands. |
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| Mid 50's Yellow silk made of Ribbon layed on a buckrum and silk tulle wire frame in shirred rows.Crown is covered in matching solid silk. Trimmed with bows of the same ribbon. Many of the small bows are still pinned on the frame with small steel straight pins. |
| Late 50's summer sheer bonnet. of gossemer straw like textile, with flocking and small flowers. layed on the frame in rows with flat straw braid, continuous through the crown. From the New Hampshire area. |
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| Early 1860's straw bonnet of two tones of brown straw finely woven braid. |
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| 1865 Fanchon Bonnet, Rose silk trimmed in black and rose ribbon, and silk roses. Note: the short back drape and the shorter front brim, ending at the ears, not coming down along the jawline. |
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| Full back view of the Fanchon Bonnet. The short back drape is made of a short row of box pleats, using the stripe in the rose silk. Looking at the horizontal stripe of the drape, and the bias stripe in the crown, along with the bows made of the black/rose stripes; and you can visualize the gorgeous rose striped silk this bonnet was made of!!! |
| Late 1850's black bonnet. This has a very deep and large horseshoe shaped crown, with a fairly deep brim. Very atypical of the Amish Order and Quakers of the period. The deep crown would allow for more air circulation as well as accomodating a larger hair mass, and still give maximum coverage of the head. |
| 1860's Black Silk buckrum framed bonnet with the silk corded and layed on in two separate pieces. This treatment gives this very common black bonnet some nice lines and interest to the eye. I reproduced this bonnet in an irredescent burgandy silk and it is very stricking. |
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| 1863-65 Spoon Bonnet. Cover in Blue silk and trimmed in blue plaid ribbon or silk. This very likely matched a dress of the same fabrics, Here is another example of drawn work on a bonnet, but with the extreme high crown of the spoon bonnet. |
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| Late '50s to early 60's 's Blue Silk drawn bonnet. This is what most of us think of when we say "drawn bonnet". But the technique of drawing the fabric onto cane or wire, then laying it on a bonnet frame was used to shape several different styles of bonnets, as you will notice when studying the oriignal bonnets on this page and others on my site. |
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| A late 50's Caned Irridescent Silk bonnet. Trimmed elaborately in green silk ribbon and white flowers. |
| 1860's Ivory Silk Shirred bonnet. Here is yet another example of shirring or caning.The finess of the gathers indicates that if likely is shirred on wire, not cane. |
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| Side view of the Sheer Organdy Sillk Bonnet, where you can see the detailed braiding trim of the organdy on the brim and at the side flowers. |
| 1860's Sheer Crinoline HorseHair Summer Bonnet. The brim is layed on in horizontal horsehair braiding and the Crown is overlaid with narrow braids of the same . Ribbon and Silk Flowers are later additions. |
| 1860's Sheer Summer bonnet of silk organdy. With the organdy being used for trim of narrow folds interwoven and layed across the crown. |