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Pocket

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand-stitched Patchwork pocket. The front is made of simply pieced 1820-30 prints, bound with blue ground print and backed with fairly thin indigo-dyed cotton with a woven border that is almost certainly an umbrella fabric. Lined with woven plaid cotton. Straight bottom; brown plain weave ties, short on the proper left side, long on the other.

G2012.053

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Accessory

Historic Costume

Unisex

Print

Cotton

Blue

Yellow

1830

American

15 in

12 in

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