Summary

Alternative Name(s): Teatowels, Handtowels, Cloths

Pair of matching white hand towels with blue embroidered ends. When collected, one handtowel was hanging on washstand HT 53284; the other handtowel was hanging on towel rack HT 53283.

Part of a dolls' house, built around 1920 by Neil McArthur for his much younger half-sister Elizabeth (Beth) Twycross, born in 1917. Neil made the doll's house out of found materials including cigar boxes; he also made many of the furnishings in the doll's house. Some of the contents of the doll's house may date back to the 1860s, played with by ancestor Charlotte Twycross; most date to either the 1920s or the 1940s-50s. In the early 1950s the donor was given the spruced-up doll's house as a birthday present by her parents. In later years her own daughter later added items, although she wasn't allowed to play due to its fragility.

Physical Description

Pair of matching white hand towels with blue embroidery at both ends. They appear to have been cut from larger cloths, with a selvedged edge along one longer edge of each, with the other edges probably hand-sewn.

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