Blanket
- Object Name:
- Blanket
- Object ID:
- 1997.016.14
- Place of Origin:
- Danville, NH
- Date:
- 1816-1860
- Description:
- Blanket. Owned by Jane (Eaton) French (1793-1826), or Susan Eaton (French) Gove (1817-1900), Danville, NH; 1816-1860. Hand-woven wool; black and white checked pattern. Seamed up center, selvedge-to-selvedge; selvedge width of each panel is ~30". The scale of the checked pattern is small, about one-inch squares. Sides are selvedge, top is hemmed by hand, and bottom edge is self-fringed. Wool Z-twist single warp yarns twist around themselves in fringe, creating plied S-twist yarns; this edge is whipped.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool - Dimensions:
- W-60.25 L-88.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Owned by Jane (Eaton) French (1793-1826), of Danville, great-great-grandmother of the donor, Halcyon Hobbs Springer.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Halcyon Hobbs Springer, in Memory of her grandmother, Minnie Douglas Smith
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