Framed textile fragment with printed red carnation pattern. Stitched to paper with handwritten ink inscription describing provenance framed in molded wood painted green with gilding.
textiles
fragments
linen (material)
paper (fiber product)
weddings
Wedding
Cloth Fragment
"Springfield Nov 9th 1896/ this piece of linen was spun and woven by/ Polly Stetson of Windsor Mass, flax/raised by her Father of that town/ for her wedding dress she Married Amos/ Ford of Windsor Mass. the linen was/ among the first stamped in Boston/ It is about one hundred and twenty/ four years old./ Presented by Mrs. E.E. Mallory/ Springfield Mass." (Black ink)
Stetson, Polly (Maker)
Windsor, MA, USA
9.125 x 6.625 (HxW) (inches)
2000.6
1770-1780 (according to letter)
Massachusetts (United States)
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