Beaded blue chiffon fabric fragment

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A beaded blue chiffon fabric fragment. The fragment is sheer and has raw edges. The overall design is a triangular shape with a lattice pattern that has scalloped edges, made from clear glass rhinestones with metal settings. Glass seed beads are used to fill in the space created by the lattice pattern. At the base of the triangle is a line of glass seed beads, with a line of glass bugle beads below it, and another line of seed beads at the bottom. White thread is strung through the metal settings of the rhinestones, and through all the glass seed beads, anchoring them to the fabric. There are areas of loose beading and missing beads throughout the lattice pattern.

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