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Hand Towel Set

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Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1820-1850

GUSN

GUSN-11537

Description

Each of rectangular form, hand-woven in white linen in a fancy weave. Including: double long bars, squares, diagonal lines and squares of circles and "sheaf" form.

Details

Descriptive Terms

towels
linen (material)
weaving
geometric patterns
Linen
Woven
Geometric
TOWEL, HAND

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

31 x 21.5 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1735

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