Towel end

Medium: cotton, glass beads Technique: interlacing and knotting (macramé) | late 19th century

Unknown Maker

Colored glass beads strung onto the extended threads and then knotted into a pattern.

Credit: Gift of Frances Morris
Object: 1951-111-39

Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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