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Piece of Ribbon

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1775-1800

GUSN

GUSN-2939

Description

Long, rectangular strip comprised of three sections of gold-yellow ribbon woven with dotted and striped mid-section, flanked by borders of patterned stripes or banding. One band has rectangles set on the diagonal, the other side has a zigzag, rectangle pattern in a continuous line.

Details

Descriptive Terms

ribbon (material)
silk (textile)
weaving
Notion
Trim, Textile
Ribbon, Textile
Ribbon, Textile

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

60 x 2 1/8 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1429

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