Gray & Blue Textile Fragment
Unidentified Enfield Shaker maker (Enfield, New Hampshire), American, active 1793-1923
Shaker Community
1840
Blue and gray checked linen textile fragment with woven border and finished hem on two sides, and cut edges on two sides.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.22.16394
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Textile
Research Area
American History
Textiles and Costumes
Not on view
Provenance
From "Old Shaker Colony" Enfield Shakers, New Hampshire; collected by Frank C. (1850-1912) and Clara G. Churchill (1851-1945), Lebanon, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1946.
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