AMERICAN LINEN PLAIN-WEAVE HAND TOWEL / SHOW TOWEL, with cotton embroidery, line border, cotton fringe and buttonhole stitched tabs, rectangular, with selvage top edge, remaining edges hemmed, border and fringe sewn on with open-work stitching; design featuring a border having trees around a central figure on a grid ground. Likely Pennsylvania. First half 19th century. 57" x 16 1/8" OA.
Good condition overall with scattered staining and one small hole in upper panel and some pulls in openwork at bottom.
Provenance: From the Allentown Art Museum to benefit future acquisitions for the Museum's textile collection.

Good condition overall with scattered staining and one small hole in upper panel and some pulls in openwork at bottom.