Description:
Woman's work skirt of black, blue and white, plain weave wool and flax. The farbic was woven on the horizontal - when the fabric was woven, the stripes were running horizontal on the loom (the length of the petticoat, 37.75", reflects the width of the fabric). There is one flat, felled vertical seam on the garment, at the center back placket. The self fabric waistband is secured by two sets of hooks and eyes (rusty, added later?). One pocket opening at side. The circumference at hem (the length of the fabric) is 118" and sometime after its construction, a matching blue wool braid was added to the hem. Kidwell and Christman show a similar petticoat in blue wool and white linen stripe, as does Linda Baumgarten in her book What Clothes Reveal. A similar striped skirt apepars in a 1738 pastel by Cornelis Troost (1696-1750), "The Discovery of Jan Claasz." Although striped petticoats were worn in the 18th-century, this example may date to the mid 19th century (c.1830-1870), woven in the Brenta region of Holland, with its characteristic multistripe textile woven horizontally against a dark background, yet the disposition on the construction of the garment is set vertically, creating only one vertical seam. Historic Deerfield's example does not have a tuck near the hem as some others do.
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