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Dish Towel

Collection Type

  • Textiles

GUSN

GUSN-11149

Description

Hand-woven cotton dish towel, of a long rectangular shape with three hemmed edges and one salvage edge. It is in light blue and brown on a natural ecru ground with two small string loops at either end for hanging.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dish towels
cotton (textile)
weaving
plaids
Cotton
Woven
Plaid
TOWEL, DISH

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

30 x 15.75 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.477

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