Blanket

Object Name:

Blanket

Object ID:

1967.541

Place of Origin:

New Hampshire

Date:

circa 1780

Description:

Blanket. Rose-type. Hand woven wool and embroidered with homespun undyed and brown color S-twisted wool singles. Plain weave with 17 wefts/16 warps per inch. Light weight. Selvedges on both sides. Bottom edge unfinished with .25" brown stripe 1" up from edge. Top edge finished with feather stitches of two ply navy worsted wool yarn. Three panel construction; two 16" x 34.5" panels of 2/2 twill handwoven with homespun Z-twisted wool singles seamed vertically selvedge to selvedge with whip stitches, hand stitched horizontally to the original blanket panel on raw edges. Seam pressed flat, edges secured with whip stitches. Bottom and top corners of the original blanket panel are cross stitch embroidered with a circular motif of three circles within a circle, first circle brown, second circle alternating yellow and brown, third is an assemblage of eight tufts of different colors around the circle with a line of satin stitches radiating from each then anchored to a pink center tuft. Clockwise color arrangement of tufts in third circle; brown, yellow/brown, olive, yellow brown, pink, yellow, olive, olive/yellow. Initials "D M S" "S" is backwards stitched on reverse of bottom right corner with outlining stitches in light brown Z-twisted 2 ply woolens yarn.

Material:

Textile
Wool

Dimensions:

W-69.5 L-91.5 inches

Provenance:

Found in collection.

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

Subjects:

Blankets, Handwork, Weaving, Embroidery, Spinning, Rose blanket