Indian print bedspread with chartreuse-colored ground and trim; the center has blocks of black-outlined peach; yellow and grey bold flowers which are enclosed by elaborate borders with flowers in kidney and heart-shaped motifs on ecru ground; it is pieced in two panels; there are two selvege ends and two frayed ends.
bedspreads
cotton (textile)
dyeing
printing (process)
Bedcover
Bedspread
Bedspread
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
103 x 68 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.431
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