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Accession Number: 
1324
Object type: 
cap

Once the cotton arrived in Britain from the New World in it was then spun and woven to make textiles like this cotton nightcap. The manufacturing of cotton fabrics was introduced to Musselburgh about 1770. It employed about 200 looms and continued till the end of the 1800s.

Is part of the following Exhibitions: 
East Lothian and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Description

Accession Number: 
1324
Object type: 
cap

Description

white cotton nightcap, frilled and lace edged border framing face, back also edged in cotton with lace border, white cotton ties and loop

Material: 
textile
Material: 
cotton
Number of objects: 
1
Height (cm): 
22.00
Width (cm): 
40.00

Associated

Accession Number: 
1324
Object type: 
cap
Object production place: 

Media

Accession Number: 
1324
Object type: 
cap
Object has been photographed/scanned: 
No