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Coverlet

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1800-1825

GUSN

GUSN-3194

Description

Long rectangular section of a coverlet; comprised of two and a half panels of dark blue wool quilted with foliated scrolls on a diagonal line field with a repeat leaf border and paisley cone device at corners; butternut colored wool back.

Details

Descriptive Terms

coverlets
linsey-woolsey
piecing
quilting
weaving
Bedcover
Coverlet
Coverlet

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

90 x 45 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.977

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