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Large woven wool blanket of rectangular form, one panel, of natural ecru color with taupe stripe at each end, four corners decorated with wool-embroidered wheel designs in taupe with inner squares of rose, butternut and cream wool, worn overcast edge in loose buttonhole stitch in rose thread.
blankets (coverings)
embroidering
wool (textile)
weaving
Blanket
Blanket
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
66 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.299
Massachusetts (United States)
Title Blanket Accession Number 1991.298
Title Blanket Accession Number 1991.300
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