Bonnet veil of embroidered net, England, 1830s.Large bonnet veil of machine-made blonde net embroidered with white floss silk. The sides and lower edge are trimmed with machine-made picots. The upper edge is turned and hemmed with a draw string of cream silk ribbon. The shallow scallops down the sides of the veil are each filled with curved leaf and a flower head placed alternately to lie along the line of the scallop or to arch above it. The larger scallops along the lower edges are decorated with more elaborate versions of the same motif and above them is a row of six large clusters of curving flowering sprays.
The remainder of the ground is covered with regular rows of single leaf motifs.