toy furniture; mattresses; blanket (bed coverings)

A blanket or mattress for a dolls house. This consists of a square of brushed cotton, with seams on all four edges. One has been blanket stitched with blue wool, the other three have been roughly overstitched with the same wool. This blanket is far too large for the cot and has been folded four times and placed in the bottom to be used as a mattress. It may have originally be used on one of the beds as a blanket as it is more suited to this size.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
nn4814.49.2
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 90 mm x 73 mm x 5 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
textile; wool
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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