Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 1967.015.01
- Date:
- 1887
- Description:
- Cloth Fragments. Pieces of cream-colored silk faille from the wedding dress of Julia Hilliard Wallingford (1850-1894), 1887; one complete sleeve, deconstructed sleeve (two pieces), and eight irregularly shaped and sized pieces, ranging from about 20" x 10" to 14" x 4". Some scraps have old stitching lines and thread remnants.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-6.75 L-19 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of Lucia Cartland Hale and Mary Cartland Lomison. From wedding outfit worn by Julia Hilliard Wallingford. Donated with other items that belonged to Julia Hilliard Wallingford of Dover, NH, who married Charles Sumner Cartland, April 27, 1887, in Wellesley, MA. Charles worked as a banker residing in Dover, NH, and Julia was living in Wellesley at the time they were married.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Lucia C. Hale and Mary C. Lomison
- People:
- Cartland, Julia H. W. (1850-1894), Cartland, Charles S. (1851-1938), Hale, Lucia C. (1890-1973), Lomison, Mary C. (1892-1976)
- Subjects:
- Weddings, Wedding clothing & dress
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