A man's handkerchief. Of square form, woven with green, yellow, blue, pink and off white cotton in a plaid pattern. It is enclosed on three sides by a wide striped border. Two ends are hand-hemmed.
handkerchiefs
accessories
cotton (textile)
weaving
Handkerchief
Handkerchief
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
28 x 28 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1765
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