checked cloth sample
- Made:
- 1900 in United States





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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