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Dish Towel

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Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1850-1900

GUSN

GUSN-11227

Description

Square, linen towel; woven with brown on an ecru/natural grid; check pattern with three borders; two hemmed and two selvage edges.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dish towels
hand weaving
linen (material)
Linen
Woven
TOWEL, DISH

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

22.5 x 24 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.398

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