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1820-1875
GUSN-2312
Of rectangular form, comprised of two panels with handsewn center seam. It has beige, off white and faded butternut yarns woven in a 1/2 inch overall check pattern with butternut horizontal and off white 'puckered' vertical bars on a beige ground. It has a rolled edge on three sides.
blankets (coverings)
wool (textile)
weaving
geometric patterns
Wool
Woven
Geometric
BLANKET
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
79 x 60 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.320
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