Tablecloth
- Object Name:
- Tablecloth
- Object ID:
- 1993.586
- Date:
- 1830-1860
- Description:
- Cloth, Communion. Handwoven white linen, damask weave (block motif). Linen fringe around all four sides. Machine made on a Jacquard loom. History included, signed in one corner "Maryann Shackford". Tablecloth of white linen damask, woven with a pattern of squares and edged with white fringe that is a combination of machine- and handmade. Inscribed in ink, "Maryann Shackford." The characteristics of the tablecloth do not match the history that came with it.
- Material:
- Textile
Linen - Dimensions:
- W-56 L-55.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Note with cloth: "This communion cloth spun and woven by my grandmother, Fanny Rowell Morgan, and the fringe around it, made by her sister (who was a cripple thirty years) Mrs. Euphana Rowell Chandler, was made around 1840, and used when our grandfather, James Morgan was deacon of Bow Baptist Church."
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Shackford, Mary Ann (1812-1849), Morgan, Fanny (1789-1872), Chandler, Euphana (1800-1868), Morgan, James (1789-1872)
- Subjects:
- Baptist churches, Sacrament, Communion
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