Sheet
- Object Name:
- Sheet
- Object ID:
- 1989.056
- Date:
- 1788-1850
- Description:
- Sheet, linen, marked twice with initials "S.P". White linen plain weave, with tears and repairs in various places. 1/2" high letters cross-stitched in gold/brown thread, along edge. Paper label attached with straight pin, handwritten, "Sara Foster / Great.great.great.grandmother's / sheet - Sally Plumer / wife of Gov Plumer". 81" x 91". Sheet of plain-woven white linen, woven in two widths and seamed up the center. Selvedge width of each panel is about 41 inches. Sheet marked twice in tan silk cross stitch near the seam at both edges, "SP." The top and bottom edges hemmed by hand. Sides are selvedge.
- Material:
- Textile
Linen
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-82.5 L-90.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Paper label attached with straight pin, handwritten, "Sara Foster / Great.great.great.grandmother's / sheet - Sally Plumer / wife of Gov Plumer"
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Sara F. Branch
- People:
- Plumer, Sally Fowler (1762-1852)
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