Late 19th century

Printed Textile: Kerchiefs

In the late nineteenth century, European textile manufacturers strove to meet the needs and tastes of economically important overseas markets. This textile was one of a large group--many previously shown at international exhibitions in France—collected as an example of trade commodities in about 1900 by the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (later the Civic Center Museum) and transferred to the Philadelphia Museum of Art when the collections were dispersed after 2001.