costume

Dancing, Chanting and Music: The Noh Robe When I first saw this Noh robe I thought about the changing of seasons, though not the change from winter to spring that I am eagerly anticipating at the moment. The robe’s colorful brocaded chrysanthemums remind me of the beginning of autumn. The robe conjures images of the chrysanthemum’s overwhelming beauty during the Japanese fall celebration, kiku matsuri. Noh, theater, Japan, autumn, costume
Wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve and jacket front. A set of eighteen remarkable buttons each feature a small painting of groups of people of mixed races in a British West Indies island, then called Dominica, now Haiti and Santo Domingo. The artist, subjects and traditional history all collide to make the buttons an extraordinary combination of artistic significance, social history, and inventive design use. buttons, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haiti, Brunias, West Indies, jacket, scenes, landscapes, costume, textiles, hats
One for the Money Has Tax Day left you pinching your pennies? Then you may appreciate the secure storage offered by miser’s purses. These oblong purses often have small center slit openings with sliding rings to secure coins in the purses’ ends (though sometimes clasps are used). Although these purses have existed in various forms since the seventeenth-century, they developed the shape seen here in the early nineteenth century. knitting, costume, costume accessories, netting, crochet, purses, literature, needlework
All That Glisters: Thirty Centuries of Golden Deception gold, gilding, decorative objects, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, costume, jewelry, Glass, leatherwork, needlework, wallpaper
Conspicuous Waist: Waistcoats and Waistcoat Designs 1700-1952 waistcoats, fashion, costume, men's clothing
Summary Catalogue of Drawings and Prints Designed for Theater in the Cooper Union Museum drawings, prints, theater, theatrical design, costume, permanent collection
Donor Spotlight : Richard C. Greenleaf Richard Cranch Greenleaf (1887–1961) was a prolific collector of lace, costume, and textiles. To a large extent, the strength of Cooper-Hewitt’s collection in these areas can be attributed to his generosity. Richard Cranch Greenleaf, donor, collector, lace, costume, textiles, collection