Coverlet sample woven at Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, 1916
date: label: date made
content: 1916
notes: label: Description
content: Coverlet sample; Eight harness double weave, woven at school for the blind in Faribault, Minn (the Minnesota State Academy for the Blind). Miss Ella Hoffner, Instructor. Woven with cotton and wool yarns in blue and white. fringed. The donor, Mrs. Laura M. Allen, was Director of Weaving in Mechanics' Institute, Rochester, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Because of the donor, Mrs. Allen's, importance in teaching and preserving early handweaving, and the use of materials she collected in books on the subject, NMAH should keep the fragments she donated in the collection, as part of the national woven coverlet collection.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Faribault
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Laura M. Allen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T04817.000
label: catalog number
content: T04817.000
label: accession number
content: 71965
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton, wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: double-woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 26.035 cm x 15.875 cm