Dress

NameDress

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Place madeHallingdal, NORWAY, Europe

MediumWool, cotton, metal

Dimensions40 15/16 × 23 5/8 × 1 9/16 in. (104 × 60 × 4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Florence Dibell Bartlett, A.1955.1.445 SC

Object numberA.1955.1.445 SC

Collections

The Florence Dibell Bartlett Collection

DescriptionThis black wool dress has a bodice heavily embroidered in red, blue, greens, and yellow wool. The bodice is lined in red cotton and edged in red commercial braid. The hem has a simliar panel edged in red. There are snaps for attaching the apron. There is a hook and eye closure.