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Laundry bag

Collection Type

  • textiles

Date

1930-1960

GUSN

GUSN-24438

Description

Brown cotton cloth, sewn into laundry bag or sack. Alternating dark brown and white striping in background, three-leaf clover pattern throughout. Bag opening is unfinished.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bags (generic containers)
cotton (textile)
hand sewing
machine sewing (technique)
cloverleafs
Cotton
Machine Sewn
Clover
BAG, LAUNDRY

Associated Building

Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

30 x 23.25 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker

Accession Number

1998.5279

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