Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 1959.032.19
- Date:
- 1779
- Description:
- Textile fragment. Quilted. From wedding dress. Five-piece construction. Front is three pieces seamed. Middle layer of wool batting. Backing of mustard-colored wool. Center piece: lampas weave with a plain-woven ground of rose-colored warps and wefts with a floral pattern of additional warps in white, greens, blues, and yellows. One side piece of indigo glazed cotton, second is brown glazed. Four raw edges. Tag attached: "ESTHER ROBINSON / POPLIN (FREENMONT) / GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER TO MISS HAMM. / CAPT. SAML ELKINS/ OF EPPING (CAPT.IN/REV) WAS SERVING / UNDER STARK / AT BENNINGTON / D. IN ANDOVER NH / 1832. PIECE OF HER / WEDDING DRESS / MARRIED IN 1779."
- Material:
- Textile
Wool - Provenance:
- Donor is a descendant of Esther Robinson (1759-1832), who was born in Fremont (Poplin), NH. She married Samuel Elkins (1757-1823) on April 15, 1780 in Andover, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Marion A. Elkin
- People:
- Robinson, Esther (1759-1832)
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