Coverlet

Textiles

1820/25

United States, Virginia, Franklin County

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Department: Textiles

Title: Coverlet
Place: Virginia (Object made in)
Date: Made 1820–1825
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); two loom widths joined
Dimensions: 229.5 × 182 cm (90 1/4 × 71 1/2 in.); Repeat: 34.6 × 26.6 cm (13 5/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Miss Weatherell
Reference Number: 1971.940
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Mildred Davison and Christa C. Mayer-Thurman, Coverlets: A Handbook on the Collection of Woven Coverlets in The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973), 25, cat. 3.

Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.

Miss Weatherell, by 1971 [RX8809 memo, Aug. 2, 1972, in curatorial object file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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