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Bedspread

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Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1880-1920

GUSN

GUSN-11065

Description

White cotton panel with overall candlewick pattern of diamonds with dot at center; off-white "tufts" or candlewicked.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bedspreads
candlewicking (embroidering)
cotton (textile)
Cotton
Candlewicked
BEDSPREAD

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

100 1/2 x 88 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.414

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