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Tablecloth

Object/Artifact

Hand stitched butted center seam and narrow hems. Seems handspun and handwoven. Cotton z singles weft. Linen z singles warp 40 PPI. Seems to be a huck woven in pairs of blocks with intervening columns to produce a clever form of trail pattern.

2014.018.87

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1845

Old Number

93.038

Cotton

Linen

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