Child stockings

Clothes for Children

Inventory number
2021.1.18.7ab.CC.UN.C1815.DE
Description
Pair of children stockings, for a girl or a boy, in white Scottish cotton thread decorated with tiny green glass bead embroidery on each side forming a stylized Christmas tree reminding design. This pair is the former property of the House of Wittelsbach, a German-Bavarian dynasty, with branches that ruled over such territories as Bavaria, Holland, Zeeland, Cologne, Sweden, Romania, Bohemia, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Greece and the Holy Roman Empire. 
Materials
Cotton
Glass beads
Origin
circa 1815 Germany