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1967.28.69

Length of white cotton cloth decorated with multicoloured checks and fringes along the long edges.

1967.28.69

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Collection type
Object
Description
Length of white cotton cloth decorated with multicoloured checks and fringes along the long edges.
Long description
Length of white cotton cloth decorated with multicoloured checks and fringes along the long edges. The cloth is formed of two lengths of cloth with the ends stitched together with white yarn. The warp is much shorter than the weft. The checked decoration is formed by floating warp threads in yellow, blue and pink. The cloth also has two pale yellow lengthways stripes and a pale pink lengthways stripe, formed by different coloured wefts and white warps.
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Mercy Watson
PRM source Ipswich Museum
PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1887
Date collected
1885 - 1887
Acquisition information
Donated: 1967
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Textile Plant, Material Cotton Yarn Plant, Process Stitched, Process Supplementary Warp Woven, Process Woven, Process Dyed
Dimensions
Length: max 1257 mm, Width: max 238 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1967.28.69

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