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Souvenir Napkin

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1890-1920

GUSN

GUSN-258190

Description

Square, off-white damask-woven linen; woven foliate and floral border; central square with inscription; foliate motifs at four corners of central square; fringed on all four sides

Details

Descriptive Terms

napkins (culinary textile)
linen (material)
damask
textile materials by weaving technique
floral patterns
Linen
Napkin

Inscription

"100/ Hotel Prinz Karl/ Heidelberg/ 1896" (damask weave)

Associated Building

Original To Field-Hodges House (North Andover, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

15 x 15 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Estate of Sarah Moore Field

Accession Number

1998.6305

Places

North Andover (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts (United States)
Probably Germany

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