Here is a link to the exhibition of textile items left with abandoned
babies at the London Foundling Hospital in the eighteenth century.
There are all sorts of things - ribbons, sleeves, embroidery, prints,
fabrics of all sorts, along with the contemporary description.
Warning: it's very sad!
http://www.threadsoffeeling.com/
If you click on the writing under the "Coram" logo, it should go to a
slide show, (with the same web address, so I can't give it separately),
which shows the samples pinned to the pages of the register, one page
completed for each foundling admitted.
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
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