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Of square form, woven in bright brown/butternut on a natural colored linen in a check pattern within a plaid border. The check is formed by natural linen bars/lines on a brown ground. Two ends are hand hemmed, and two sides are selvedge.
handkerchiefs
accessories
linen (material)
weaving
Handkerchief
Handkerchief
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
22 x 20 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1762
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