Textile fragment

Description

This textile fragment consists of three printed cotton fabrics sewn together, each with a different floral pattern. This object belonged to the donor’s great-grandmother and may have been used to visualize how different patterns would look when combined. In the 19th-century United States, with the proliferation of printed textiles and growth of the consumer economy, home sewers had more fabric patterns to choose from than ever before. This object is one of a large group transferred to Winterthur from the American Textile History Museum when it closed in 2017.