Rectangular form comprised of three hand-woven panels on off-white ground stencilled with a diamond and "dash" pattern; border has a field of floral sprigs and circles of leafy sprigs with floral sprigs and an inner border has undulating flowering vines on three sides in green, red and yellow; hand hemmed and seamed.
coverlets
cotton (textile)
stenciling
weaving
Bedcover
Coverlet
Coverlet
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
78 x 108 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.409
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