Bag

Description

The Great Falls Manufacturing Company, located in Somersworth, New Hampshire, manufactured this seamless cotton bag in the late 19th century, shortly after the U.S. Civil War. It is sewn at the bottom and has a hand stitched 3/8-inch hem at the top. There are narrow brown and blue stripes in the warp near the sides of the bag – two on the front and two on the back. Seamless bags were used in factories to hold items like ore, screws, grain, or sugar. This bag was used at Great Falls to transport bobbins within the mill. This object is one of a large group transferred to Winterthur from the American Textile History Museum when it closed in 2017.