Square form, of home spun and woven white boiled wool with taupe stripe at one end, and embroidered with taupe wool yarns with wheel-like devices at two corners.
blankets (coverings)
embroidering
wool (textile)
weaving
yarn
Blanket
Blanket
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
62 3/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.300
Massachusetts (United States)
Title Blanket Accession Number 1991.298
Title Blanket Accession Number 1991.299
Title Cloth Fragment Accession Number 1991.302
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