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Floor Cloth

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1820-1850

GUSN

GUSN-2901

Description

Rectangular piece of white woven cotton printed with all over design of octogonal shapes enclosing a four petal flower. The octogonal pattern printed in black with salmon ground and blue and yellow flowers.

Details

Descriptive Terms

floor cloths
cotton (textile)
printing (process)
weaving
Floorcloth
Floorcloth

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

68 1/2 x 40 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1372

Places

New Hampshire (United States)

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