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It is in two parts- a linen wrap and a madder redwool weft woven in a geometric pattern of stacked rectangles and checkerboard squares.
coverlets
linen (material)
wool (textile)
weaving
Bedcover
Coverlet
Coverlet
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
100 x 41 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1509AB
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