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Rectangular form with cut flower corners, white linen ground embroidered with white cotton yarn or candlewicked with a central oval reserve with a basket of flowers (or weeping willow). Enclosed by a ring of stars, palmettes and a diamond border. Three sides with deep linen flounce.
bedspreads
candlewicking (embroidering)
cotton (textile)
linen (material)
Bedcover
Bedspread
Bedspread
In the center in an embroidered 'candlewick' are the initials, 'O.H.'
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Hobbs, Olive Curtis (Maker)
Ipswich, MA, USA
83 x 68 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1324
Massachusetts (United States)
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