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Housewife

Object/Artifact

Housewife, entirely hand stitched, made of furnishing print brown copperplate (probably). The pattern is rural but hard to discern what it was overall. Printed on cotton. Made as a tube with a pointed flap on the top of one ‘side’ and a little drawstring pouch-pocket at the bottom."

G2006.124

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1800

Housewife

copper print

toile

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