Linen damask tablecloth; Eagle & Inscription "We offer Peace / Ready for War"; 1800-1850
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1850
notes: label: Description
content: Linen damask tablecloth; Eagle & Inscription "We offer Peace / Ready for War"; 1800-1850. 63" x 58" - called a "tea cloth" by the donor. White linen turned satin damask tablecloth; 5-shaft satin weave; yarns are Z-twist linen singles. Central motif is an eagle, wings outstretched, shiield body, facing right; clutching arrows in the left claw and laurel in the right. A banner (streamer) with motto E Pluribus Unum above, 13 stars and puffy clouds above that. below is motto "We offer peace / Ready for War". Floral sprays fill the field. Border (12 3/4" at sides; 11" top and bottom) with pattern of columns and meandering palm leaves, wreath. Passed down in a New England family; used last by Amos Hill of Worcester, Mass. (born about 1820; died 1906-07). A graduate of the Amherst Theological Seminary, his pastorate was in leicester, Mass., near Sturbridge. Possibly woven in Ireland or Great Britain; made for the American market.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Philip C. Brooks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T16878
label: catalog number
content: T16878
label: catalog number
content: T.16878
label: accession number
content: 308470
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tablecloth
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: satin damask; jacquard woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 63 in x 58 in; 160.02 cm x 147.32 cm