Hetty Bradley's embroidered counterpane, 1822
date: label: date made
content: 1822
notes: label: Description
content: Counterpane made of two strips of 44-inch, stout, handwoven, cotton muslin seamed up center and embroidered in an ornate design-center vase and floral forms (Tree of Life), corner motifs, and vine border, suggestive of Indian and Chinese patterning--executed in a variety of stitches (blanket, button hole background, close buttonhole, Cretan, feather, figure, herringbone, Japanese, knotted, satin, star filling, and stem) with coarse, 3-ply cotton thread. Finish, applied 4 1/2" woven, cut fringe with fancy, openwork, self heading. .Dated May 8, 1822, and made by Hetty Bradley, daughter of Major John Bradley of Revolutionary fame, and a sister of the donor's great-grandmother. plantation near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
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content: Needlework
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T08874.000
label: catalog number
content: T08874.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bedcover
label: Object Name
content: counterpane
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; embroidery (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 97 in; 246.38 cm