Coverlet

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Abram Allen (Weaver)

Title

Coverlet

Place

Ohio (Object made in)

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Made 1839

Medium

Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth with main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

Inscriptions

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

Dimensions

228.6 × 201.3 cm (90 × 79 1/4 in.); Repeat: 23.3 × 45.7 cm (9 1/8 × 18 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julian Armstrong, Jr.

Reference Number

1984.86

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