Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 1927.018.02
- Date:
- circa 1851
- Description:
- Dress fragments. Four triangular pieces from a wedding gown. Possibly remnants from the skirt. Two fragments of weft faced ribbed plain-woven grey-green silk, each with one selvedge with stitch holes and three raw edges. Two plain-woven off-white polished cotton cambric lining fragments, each with two raw edges, one edge pressed under 0.5" with stitch holes throughout, and 0.25" selvedge edge visible at the point of the triangle; one fragment a two-piece construction with a hand stitched 0.25" seam.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton
Silk - Provenance:
- Object found in collection in 1961. On loan from Frances Ladd Coe (1841-1930).
- Credit Line:
- Loan of Frances L. Coe
- People:
- Coe, Frances L. (1841-1930)
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