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FIGURE 25.—Detail showing fringed valance from set of white
linen bed curtains. (Smithsonian photo 61290-D).
eight respectively. The style of the embossed design
is reminiscent of a simplified version of a late seventeenth
or early eighteenth-century damask; the
fabric is judged to be mid-eighteenth-century imported
from England and probably made into the
bed furniture by the Copps at Stonington H.6648
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Valance and three bed curtains (Figure 25),
valance 22^ feet long made up of eight widths of
34-inch white linen woven of single-ply Z-twist yarns;
the bed curtains, of the same fabric, measure 80 to
81 inches long —the single width curtain is 3234
wide and the two double curtains are 64 and 65
inches in width, each complete with linen tape loops.
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