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Woven wool blanket, of square form, comprised of two panels pieced together of natural ecru color with thin taupe stripe down center (pieced area) and two large and loosed, embroidered wheel designs near the middle of each side; three hemmed edges and one salvage end.
blankets (coverings)
embroidering
hand sewing
wool (textile)
weaving
Blanket
Blanket
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
63 1/2 x 59 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1377
Massachusetts (United States)
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