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Blanket

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1880-1920

GUSN

GUSN-2761

Description

Of rectangular form, woven in beige wool with pale green horizontal stripes at the top and bottom. The ends are overcast in beige wool.

Details

Descriptive Terms

blankets (coverings)
wool (textile)
weaving
Blanket
Blanket

Inscription

Embroidered in the top center is: HNJ . In ink on a cotton tag in the lower left corner is written: Blue Room .

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

81 x 68 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1207

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