Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 1975.074.12 a-f
- Creator:
- Little, Jane (1800-1877)
Weaver - Place of Origin:
- Boscawen, NH
- Date:
- 1815-1840
- Description:
- Coverlet Fragments. Woven by Jane Little (1800-1877) of Boscawen, NH; 1815-1840. Summer and winter overshot weave; design is worked in light olive green and tan wool yarns and white cotton yarns, features a square block with a grid in the center and ovals at the corners; the ovals have an X through them. This block is sashed with striped rows, which form blocks where they intersect. Six total, four stitched together and labeled (B-E); see 1975.74.11 a and b.
A. Individual triangular coverlet fragment, handwoven cotton warp and weft yarns overshot with green and orange wool weft yarns.
B. Triangular fragment of same fabric as A. Scrap paper label from a printed price list with handwriting on the unprinted side, "Wool bedcoverlet /made on a hand loom / by my grandmother" handstitched to fragment with white thread. One selvedge edge, three raw edges.
C. Ribbed plain-woven delaine with double cotton warp and wool weft, roller-printed pattern of scrolling vines in gold and maple leaves in coral on a gray-brown ground, four raw edges, folder over, handwritten paper label with "Wool delaine" handstiched through all layers securing to coverlet fabric underneath.
D-E. Two checked fragments, one plain woven in stripes of violet and white cotton and purple and beige wool yarns, the other fragment is a leno-woven grenadine of wool weft stripes pink and beige and warps of plain white and white/brown twisted dyed yarns, both fragments layered on top of the other, handwritten paper label " Muslin delaine" stitched through all four layers, each have a selvedge edge and three raw edges.
F. Rectangular fabric remnant of same check gauze described in D, 23" loom width, 10" x 11" fragment cut out from one corner, two selvedges, two raw edges. - Material:
- Textile
Wool
Cotton
Paper - Dimensions:
- W-23 L-34 inches
- Provenance:
- According to family tradition the coverlet was woven and used by Jane (Little) Gerrish (1800-1877) of Boscawen, NH. It was inherited by Mabel A. Gerrish (1878-1974), who bequeathed it to her daughter, the donor, Elizabeth S. Werner.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Elizabeth Sewall Page Werner
- Subjects:
- Coverlet, Home-woven, Weaving, Handwork, Grenadine
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