checked cloth sample
- Made:
- 1900 in United States
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This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
This image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence
Cloth, dark blue and cream check, made around 1900 in the United States on a hand loom, but also representative of the
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Cloth, dark blue and cream check, made around 1900 in the United States on a hand loom, but also representative of the
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Cloth, dark blue and cream check, made around 1900 in the United States on a hand loom, but also representative of the
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Cloth, dark blue and cream check, made around 1900 in the United States on a hand loom, but also representative of the
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Cloth, dark blue and cream check, made around 1900 in the United States on a hand loom, but also representative of the
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Cloth, dark blue and cream check, made in the United States, around 1900.
This cloth was made in the United States on a hand loom in arond 1900. It is representative of the type of checked cloth known as Guinea Cloth, made in Manchester from around 1780 and sold in exchange for enslaved people in West Africa.
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