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Window Hangings

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Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1880-1900

GUSN

GUSN-313641

Description

This set of two partial valances and a pair of straight side curtains is made up using red plate-printed cotton. The print is made to resemble eighteenth-century pastoral toiles. Each panel is machine stitched.

Details

Descriptive Terms

curtains
valances
cotton (fiber)
printed textile materials
Curtain
Curtain, Window
Curtain, Window

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

14 x 28 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bernard Scott

Accession Number

2001.281.1249

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