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Title:textile
Type:Textile
Materials:textile: blue twill weave silk (bourette)
Accession Number:  HD F.800.1
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Length of blue bourrette in a twill weave. Bourette was used for both clothing and interior furnishings in the 17th and 18th centuries, characterized by coarser weft yarns. On same roll as F.747.

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