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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 1956521, member: 5398&quot;]Since these pieces are 12&quot; square, then my guess is they had a wide border of material and possibly a lace edging. To determine the fiber content, you could cut off a small piece of the frayed material and do a burn test.&nbsp; Hold the piece to be tested with tweezers that you don&#039;t mind messing up, and hold it over a fire-proof dish or ashtray before holding a match to it. Carefully sniff the smoke -- cotton and linen both smell like burning paper, but cotton leaves a soft gray ash and linen leaves a soft black ash. Silk smells like burning hair or feathers and leaves a black soft bead. Finely-woven linen can have a soft sheen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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