{"product_id":"kept-by-ribbon-1950s-70s-hand-knit-lace-baby-bonnet","title":"Kept by Ribbon · 1960s Hand-Knit Lace Baby Bonnet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHand-knit lace bonnet · wool blend · four-panel diamond eyelet crown · double satin ribbon ties · unsigned handmade · 1960s · 13cm crown length · fits newborn to six months · excellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCount the eyelets in a single panel and you get a different number each time, the lace holds its shape but never quite its arithmetic. Four panels meet at the crown like the corners of a tiny circumstance, decided by whoever cast on the first stitch and never wrote her name anywhere on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo label, no tag, nothing sewn in anywhere, which is ordinary for a piece like this rather than a gap in the record. She is a 1960s bonnet by construction and yarn alone, hand-knitted, likely at home, gifted between women, worked in spare hours for a baby who was already loved before she arrived. That the maker's name did not survive does not make the work any less exact: four matched panels of eyelet lace, worked evenly enough that none reads looser than the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crown is built from four diamond eyelet panels in garter stitch, each rising to a single point and joined so the whole thing sits low and close rather than domed. A double satin ribbon ties at each side, 47cm from the bow, long enough to knot properly under the chin. The cast-off edge runs in a plain garter border rather than a picot, letting the lace do the talking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44165974261894,"sku":null,"price":52.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3479.jpg?v=1784267475","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/kept-by-ribbon-1950s-70s-hand-knit-lace-baby-bonnet","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}