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Embroidery Thread

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Collection Type

  • Textiles

GUSN

GUSN-10884

Description

One of four skeins of embroidery thread: 1 dark red cotton, 1 white cotton, 2 shades of brown linen. Linen and white cotton are twisted, dark red cotton is braided. [1992.628-631]

Details

Descriptive Terms

thread
cotton (textile)
linen (material)
Linen
Cotton
THREAD

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

24 (H) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.631

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