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It was worked with a single colour of silk, usually black, as in this coif,  but also blue, red or green on linen.  This coif is a particularly lavish example as the blackwork has been embellished with embroidery in silver-gilt thread and trimmed with silver-gilt bobbin lace.\r\n\r\nUntil the end of the 17th century the coif was informal headwear for women.  Plain linen versions were worn by the working-class.  Middle-class and aristocratic women wore elaborately decorated coifs.  It would have been worn by itself indoors, or with a hat on top in public. In Western Europe it was customary for both men and women to cover their heads in public up until the 1960s. 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The seam at the top appears to have been unpicked and re-sewn at a later date.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"linen","id":"x29412"},{"text":"silk (textile)","id":"AAT243428"},{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"embroidering","id":"AAT53653"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Linen, black silk thread, silver-gilt thread and spangles; hand-sewn and hand-embroidered","categories":[{"text":"Clothing","id":"THES48975"},{"text":"Fashion","id":"THES48957"},{"text":"Embroidery","id":"THES48960"},{"text":"Lace","id":"THES48926"},{"text":"Europeana Fashion Project","id":"THES265804"}],"styles":[{"text":"Jacobean","id":"AAT107014"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2019MB1331","2013GC9945","2011EV8026","2011FD8543","2011FD8663","2011FD3313","2017JV2681","2017JV4550","2017JW1114"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES327385"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Coif","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1600-1625","earliest":"1600-01-01","latest":"1625-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"23.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"approx.","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"22.0","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"approx","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"A woman's coif of linen, 1600-1624, English; Blackwork, silver gilt thread, spangles and bobbin lace","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John Lea Nevinson, Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Textiles, London: HMSO, 1938, p.84"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"bird","id":"x35043"},{"text":"butterfly","id":"x30161"},{"text":"rose","id":"x40377"},{"text":"foxglove","id":"x30497"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Woman's coif. 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