Blue lace headband

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 blue lace tatted headband. The base of the headband is made of three strands of metal wire covered in blue synthetic fabric. The ends of the fabric are folded to the interior and hand sewn. Light blue tatted lace trim is adhered to the top of the headband along each fabric covered wire. At one end of the headband the two outer metal wires end in points and curve back upwards, ending at the base of the central metal wire. The other end of the headband ends in three loops, one loop is pointed to the bottom and the other two are pointed to the sides. The loops are covered in the tatted lace trim. The headband is unlabeled.

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