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Culture:American
Title:pattern drafting system
Date Made:1840-1860
Type:Tool - Textile Working
Materials:paper, textile: linen
Place Made:United States
Accession Number:  HD 2001.40
Credit Line:Gift of Tilda Hunting and Robin Yerkes
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Instructions for ladies' and children's bodices in paper on linen/cotton, which were found in a home in Conway, Massachusetts. A date of 1860 exists printed on the paper instructions; however, the hairstyle of the figures represented indicates an earlier style of about 1845-50.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Linen

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