Digital Collections
Petticoat
Object/Artifact
Entirely hand stitched white cotton petticoat, very full skirt gauffered onto white cotton waistband with long white cotton twill tape ties. Embellished with broderie anglaise butas forming a pyramind in the front above the hem, with a border the rest of the way around.Inked inscription on the CF waistband: “F.M. Washburn AD 1861”"
G2005.143
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1861
petticoat
broderie angalaise
cotton
hand stitiched
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