Jacquard-woven tablecloth; 1850-1880; USA
date: label: Date made
content: Late 18th - early 19th century
label: Date made
content: late 18th - early 19th century
label: Date made
content: 1750-1850
label: Date made
content: Late 18th - early 19th century
label: date made
content: late 19th century
label: date made
content: 1850-1880
notes: label: Description
content: Jacquard-woven tablecloth, single cloth featuring a central lace pattern medallion; birds with branches and greek key lace border, flanked by rose and floral designs, and an exterior waffle-weave border; cotton; plain weave, waffle weave; 1850-1880; USA. Large rectangle central medallion is developed from a brown warp and red weft. It's base made up of concentric different waffle-weave diamonds with circles at the outer one's outer corners. There is a little bird and flowered branch along each side of the diamond, and the outside effect is overlapping scalloped ribbon outer borders are made up of roses and diamonds. Weave--combination of loose weaves, predominately waffle weave in serious scales. Warp--white dark brown, dark red, blue, 2 ply s twist cotton, weft, white dark red blue single z twist cotton. This object was part of a gift that was divided between Arts and Industry (now American History) and Cooper-Hewitt. Rita Adrosko originally indentified this as a tablecloth due its nearly square dimensions and the presence of fringe on both ends, rather than on three sides. The trompe l'oeil effect of the center medallion was particularly popular in the 1860s and 1870s. Rita mentions in her correspondences that it was not uncommon for blanket and carpet weavers to weave other household textiles. The accession file contains a later attribution to a weaver Thomas Bartholomew Marsteller (1812-1890) of Northhampton County, PA, but there is no documentation in the file linking or suggesting that he might have been the weaver or factory owner.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edgar O. Smith; Cooper-Hewitt Transfer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0859.03
label: accession number
content: 1980.0859
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0859.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tablecloth
label: Object Name
content: tablecloth, Jacquard-woven
label: Object Type
content: jacquard coverlets
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: jacquard (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: single weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: central medallion (overall pattern)
label: Physical Description
content: roses and diamonds (border pattern)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: dark brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 75 1/4 in x 74 in; 191.135 cm x 187.96 cm