Stunning and Rare.This is exactly the type of fabric that Dutch settlers would have taken to the New World. These pieces were from a skirt but could be used for upholstery.
Dutch, two lengths which sewn would make an original skirt, of bright yellow and black stripes, a tuck a third of the way down from the top, one end with a narrow cord, 38 x 23 1/2 in w or 97 x 60 cm w.and 38 x 69 in or 97 x 1.75 cm wide.
The smaller piece in very good apart from two minute holes and a few at hem.
Larger piece: A few very small holes. Good strong colouring.
The stripes are just over 1/2 in or under 2 cm wide. No selvedges
Very coarse wool which would have been strong and hard wearing. For re-enactors to copy or make up and wear.
The original skirts seem to be 10ft 6 in or 3.2 m hem circumference, wheras these two lengths sewn together would have a hem circ of 7ft 10 in or 2.4 m. They would still make a very full skirt and ideal I would have thought for a re-enactor.
Skirts from Drenthe, another province on the other side of the inner sea. In the 1776 Pennsylvania Gazette " Run away......Dutch servant woman hath been about two years in the country speaks very broken English.....had on when she went away, a striped flannel jacket of a dark colour patched with flannel of a darker colour,a petticoat of same striped with sheep's black and yellow, "
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