Four Shaker Textiles

Four Shaker Textiles, a length of fabric, dyed blue wool, plain weave, 48 E. P.I., lightly calendared, outer edge overcast with white thread, paper label pinned to edge of fabric reads "This piece to be reserved for sisters aprons," believed to have been purchased by Erhart Muller at New Lebanon, New York, in June of 1946, this cloth is similar to a sample of blue drugget woolen dress cloth from Mount Lebanon in a book at the Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, 34 1/2 in. x 15 1/2 yd.; a bolt of red and blue cloth, blue wool warp and red cotton weft, plain weave, 48 E.P.I., believed to have been purchased at New Lebanon, New York, in June of 1946, 34 1/2 in. x 7 yd.; a tablecloth, cotton, "N F 10" in cross-stitch at lower left, (small holes and some staining), 35 x 42 in.; and a bolt of brown wool cloth, "E.J." in cross-stitch on one end, 32 x 120 in.