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Towel (Decorated hand towel)
1845
Category
Textiles (Needlework)
Place of Origin
Pennsylvania; Lancaster; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Linen
- Cotton
Museum Object Number
2013.0031.163
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle
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Object Number
2013.0031.163
Object Name
Towel (Decorated hand towel)
Category
Textiles (Needlework) - Collection of Pastor Frederick S. Weiser
Place of Origin
Pennsylvania; Lancaster; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Origin Notes
Probably worked in Elizabethtown where Elisabeth lived.
Date
1845
Materials
- Linen
- Cotton
Techniques
- Embroidered
- Woven (plain)
- Cross stitched
- Drawn work
- Dresden work
Construction Description
Hand-embroidered
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Catalogue: Minardi, Lisa. 2015 A Colorful Folk: Pennsylvania Germans & the Art of Everyday Life.
• Published: fig. 33, p.30Book: Gehret, Ellen J., et al. 1985 This Is the Way I Pass My Time. 18.
• Published: cover, jacket detail; p. 187, fig 371 detail