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Cream linen skirt gathered into waistband with an attached border worked in crewel yarns in scrolling vines with floral motifs in shades of red, blue, green, pink, and yellow worsted yarn. The skirt is made up of selvage-width panels pleated into the waist-band. The linen is 28 1/4" selvage to selvage. This appears to be a later creation using an eighteenth-century crewel panel and older linen.
petticoats (underskirts)
linen (material)
crewelwork (technique)
embroidering
Underskirt
Underskirt
Gilman Garrison House (Exeter, N.H.),
Unknown
New Hampshire
Bequest of William Perry Dudley
1966.1393
1875-1900 (possibly, using eighteenth-century embroidered panels and older linen.)
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