Blanket
- Object Name:
- Blanket
- Object ID:
- 1938.003.15 b
- Place of Origin:
- Moultonborough, NH/Center Harbor, NH
- Date:
- 1800-1850
- Description:
- Blanket. Light weight hand woven blanket with homespun Z-twisted wool single yarns, 2/2 twill weave. Natural color with traces of dyed blue fibers spun into yarns. Two 31.25" wide panels hand stitched selvedge to selvedge down center. Selvedges on both sides. Top and bottom hemmed 0.25". Top stitched with decorative herringbone stitches of red two-ply worsted on bottom, with crows footing of navy two ply woolens yarn. Initials "H C" cross stitched on either side of seam with yellow and blue two-ply woolen yarn.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool - Dimensions:
- W-65.5 L-84 inches
- Provenance:
- Ownership attributed to the donor's grandmother, Abigail (Hodgdon) Canney (1798-1874).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Hosea Canney
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