Quaker clothing, while of good quality and using quality fabrics, was frequently modest and understated, without trimming or ornamentation. Colours were subtle, in shades of brown, deep red, olive, grey and other non-bright hues, as well as black. The Quaker bonnet, with its coal-scuttle shape, is particularly evocative of early-mid 19th century Quaker female style. The donor of the bonnet, a Miss Clarkson, stated that ‘the Quaker bonnet was the property of Anna Watson of Kilconner House, County Carlow, Ireland, who was married by declaration in meeting on the ninth day of the tenth month 1834 to Samuel Grubb (?) of Coolville near Clogheen in the county of Tipperary, Ireland’. (Registered file 1933/1436)