Truce Flag Dish Towel by Sonya Clark

Inspired by Monument Lab collaborator Sonya Clark’s landmark project, Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know, you can collect this artist-edition initially commissioned by the Fabric Workshop and Museum. 

Why do we all know the Confederate Battle Flag and not the Confederate Flag of Truce?

This artist edition print continues the conversation that Sonya Clark first began during her Fabric Workshop and Museum residency in 2019. Produced in a limited edition of 1865—the year of the Confederate surrender— “Confederate Truce Flag (monumental dishtowel)” raises the forgotten rag that signaled the end of the American Civil War and the eventual end of slavery in the US.

This artist edition was produced by Sonya Clark, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.

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