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| Collection No. | 26.85.48 | |
| Description | Housewife or sewing case pieced from three different fabrics. Trimmed with light blue silk tape. Inside material is an 18th-century embroidered silk, the fragment of a larger design. Worked in shades of green, yellow, cream and pink with silver threads on ribbed cream silk. Two red wool leaves. Other fabrics are late-18th century block-printed cottons in shades of pink and red, brown one has green and gold also. | |
| Probable Date | circa 1780-1820 | |
| Maker | Unidentified | |
| Materials | Silk, wool, cotton | |
| Dimensions | L: 9" (22.9 cm); W: 2 3/4" (7 cm) | |
| History | Attached label reads: "A relic from Mrs Noah Bigelow. The outside a piece of one of her dresses. Mrs Noah Bigelow 2d wife b 179 -1884." The inside fabric may have been recycled from clothing or a household textile. | |
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