Coverlet

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

1825/35

United States, Pennsylvania, Bucks County

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Coverlet
Places: United States (Object made in), Bucks County (Object made in), Pennsylvania (Object made in)
Date: Made 1825-1835
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts (overshot); knotted main warp fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined
Dimensions: 224.3 × 193.2 cm (88 3/8 × 76 in.) Repeat: 12 × 16.1 cm (4 3/4 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1922.4448
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Christa C. Mayer-Thurman, “American Coverlets,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 67, 4 (July–Aug. 1973): 5, fig. 3 (ill.).
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), 48-49, cat. 37.

Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Coverlets from the Permanent Collection, Apr. 4–July 5, 1981.

Frank W. Gunsaulus (1856-1921), Chicago, by 1922 [Davison and Christa C. Mayer-Thurman 1973, p. 48]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

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