Lot 162: Shaker Mittens

SOLD: $300 (without buyer’s premium)
Estimate: $500 – $700

Dyed blue wool interior showing knitted through white pile, “thick uncut pile on the outside with a red flower worked on a white background in the pile”, 11″ l, 5″ w, (purchased at the Doug Towle collection auction, WHA, September 4, 2005, Lot 92; from a prominent Pennsylvania collection).

Note: See Shaker Textile Arts, Beverly Gordon, 1980, p. 197. Only other known pair of this style mittens is at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.