100% wool
54" wide
This luxuriously soft and firm flannel is hard to find today but in the 18th century it was very commonly used for men's jackets, shirts and waistcoats, and women's petticoats. It was also used for women's gowns and jackets and linings. For example in The Newport Mercury “Ran away . . . February, 1774, an Indian girl . . . had on when she went away . . . a striped flannel petticoat . . . a striped flannel short gown” cited in Taylor and Sweet, Runaways, Deserters, and Notorious Villains From Rhode Island Newspapers Volume 2, 2001.
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This product was added to our catalog on Friday 04 June, 2010.
