Bedspread
- Object Name:
- Bedspread
- Object ID:
- 1974.002
- Date:
- 1830-1860
- Description:
- Coverlet. Two pieces. Handwoven; olive green, rusty orange. cream, blue, and gold wool yarns in a birdseye twill plaid. The long edges are selvedge; the bottom edge is self-fringed, and the top edge is hemmed. Panel .a is about 4 inches longer than panel .b, so meeting the woven pattern up the center would have required some stretching of the shorter panel, which would have caused some distortion (and may be why it was separated). Each panel is about 41 inches wide.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool - Dimensions:
- W-41 L-92 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Philbrook farm, in Weare.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Woodbury M. and Josephine M. Philbrook
- Subjects:
- Bedspreads, Weaving
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