Tablecloth
- Object Name:
- Tablecloth
- Object ID:
- 1956.071
- Place of Origin:
- Ireland
- Date:
- 1800-1900
- Description:
- Fragment (a relic) of an ancestral linen tablecloth brought from Ireland. This square of linen is woven with a pattern of squares of twill diamonds and huckaback honeycomb. Two contiguous edges are narrow-hemmed by hand, and the other two edges are cut and raw. A line of faggoting is worked inside the raw edges.
- Material:
- Textile
Linen - Dimensions:
- W-12.75 L-13 inches
- Provenance:
- "Piece of table cloth brought from Ireland by Great Grandmother of A[nna] F[orbes] Crossman."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Bessie W. Palm
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