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Cloth Sample

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1880-1920

GUSN

GUSN-11560

Description

A rectangular panel of fabric with frayed ends. It is pinned under along the sides. The fabric ground is almost a black with a print of shaggy flowerr blossoms on a vine in "dot" yellow, orange, purple, and red.

Details

Descriptive Terms

cloth
printing (process)
Sample, Material
Sample, Material

Inscription

In ink on a paper label glued at the end reads: 438/$1.00 .

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

88 x 14 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1758

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