About This Artwork

Woven by Abram Allen (born Ireland, ca. 1796)
American, active 1833–1844
United States, Ohio, Clinton County, Wilmington

Coverlet, 1839

Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth with main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment
226.5 x 203.6 cm (89 1/4 x 79 7/8 in.)
Repeat: 23.3 x 45.7 cm (9 1/8 x 18 in.)
Inscription (in mirror image in bottom corner blocks): Be ye to others kind and true as youd have oth ers be to you and neither say or do to them what e'er you would not take again / OHIO / 1839 / By A Allen
Restricted gift of Mrs. Julian Armstrong Jr., 1984.86

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "The Woven Coverlet: An Expression of Treasured America," March 1–July 23, 2000

Publication History

Book containing drafts for Coverlet Weaving, United States, 1839 (1922.4350)

Mildred Davison and Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Coverlets: A Handbook on the Collection of Woven Coverlets in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: 1973).

John W. Heisey. Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers (The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1978).

Madeleine Rogers. "Jacquard Coverlets: Where Geneology and Textiles Meet." American Art and Antiques (Jan/Feb 1979).

Supplement to the Annual Report of The Art Institute of Chicago 1983-1984, p. 25.




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