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Rectangular piece of material that is comprised of three panels of glazed cotton; the fabric is patterned with exotic "palm trees" planted in a flower patch; the ground is khaki colored with green, brown, red, blue, yellow and black on the trees and flowers; on the reverse is thin yellow and red striped fabric patterned with "C" scrolls, and cones and flowers in a cocoa brown; the edges are bound in striped linen tape; quilted overall in a zigzag diagonal like pattern.
covers (overlying objects)
cotton (textile)
piecing
printing (process)
quilting
Runner, Table
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
28 x 58 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1776
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