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Comprised of panels of printed cotton patterned with baskets of flowers and fruit. This is on a "moire-like" background and stripe of curling fan fronds in maroon on off-white and quilted with diagonal lines and frond curls. The cut-out lower corners and edge bound in worn polychrome printed cotton. It has a natural linen colored back. The sides have been turned back.
bedspreads
cotton (textile)
linen (material)
piecing
printing (process)
quilting
weaving
flower baskets
berry baskets
Cotton
Linen
Quilted
Transfer Printed
Woven
Pieced
Fruit Basket
BEDSPREAD
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
100 x 111 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.1157
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