Antique Chinese Silk Embroidered Sleeve Band Forbidden Stitch Embroidery 7”x 21” Mexican silver amethyst Hips: 35”-36”

Hips:  35”-36”

Sleeves: 17

so probably for a tall person

Daché started her millinery career by apprenticing with known milliners in Paris and then purchasing a New York hat shop in 1924

Color:  Brown

Antique Chinese Silk Embroidered Sleeve Band Forbidden Stitch Embroidery 7”x 21” Mexican silver amethyst Hips: 35”-36”I acquired this piece along with a number of other antique Chinese textiles 38 years ago from Miss Alice Lighthall. Miss Lighthall was 91 years old at the time and was the daughter of William Douw Lighthall, an important Canadian historian, lawyer, novelist, collector, politician and poet. WD Lighthall was the mayor of Westmount (a wealthy suburb of Montreal) from 1900 until 1903 and practiced law for 63 years, from 1881 until 1944. Mr Lighthall was