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Piece of a Blanket

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1820-1860

GUSN

GUSN-33999

Description

White, plain weave lightly napped wool blanket fragment with woven dark stripe across one end and remains of embroidered stars in two corners; fragment is one end of blanket.

Details

Descriptive Terms

blankets (coverings)
embroidering
weaving
machine-made
tabby (textile)
wool (textile)
Blanket
Blanket

Pattern

Moss Rose

Maker

Hall, Sarah Moors (Maker)

Dimensions

63 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Sarah A. Hill

Accession Number

1931.689

Places

Possibly Massachusetts (United States)
Probably

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