Rectangular form of off-white wool bauded at the top and the bottom with pale green stripes. The ends overcast with off-white wool. The top center of the blanket is initialed "H.N.J" under the stripes.
blankets (coverings)
embroidering
wool (textile)
weaving
Blanket
Blanket
On a cloth label in the corner it reads: Pink Room . Embroidered on the top center are the initials: HNJ , in blue silk threads.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
98 x 80 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1378
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