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Dust Ruffle

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

ca. 1900

GUSN

GUSN-864

Description

Cream silk taffeta gathered to self band with twenty-one button holes; trimmed with scalloped self ruffle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

base valances
silk (textile)
taffeta
Hanging, Bed
Valance, Bed
Valance, Bed

Associated Building

Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman

Accession Number

1969.5642

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