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Crib Blanket

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1820-1840

GUSN

GUSN-2293

Description

Woven wool blanket, natural ecru with polychrome striped bands at ends, embroidered with wheel decoration at corners in red, green, yellow; red cross-stitch decoratively trimming each end.

Details

Descriptive Terms

blankets (coverings)
embroidering
wool (textile)
weaving
Blanket
Blanket

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

25 1/2 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.301

Places

Vermont (United States)

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