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.
coverlets
linsey-woolsey
piecing
quilting
weaving
Bedcover
Coverlet
Coverlet
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
90 x 45 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.977
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