William Craig; coverlet; Figured and Fancy; double-cloth; 1850; Indiana
date: label: date made
content: 1850
name: label: maker
content: Craig, William
notes: label: Description
content: William Craig, Sr. (1800-1880) wove this rust, white and blue, double-cloth coverlet. The centerfield design is composed of floral and foliate carpet medallions. There are borders along three sides. The two side borders feature vertically-oriented flowering urns. The lower border features pairs of confronted birds, possibly doves, perched on flowers. Between those pairs of birds is an Asian, Chinoiserie or Ottoman-style domed building underneath what appears to be a Mediterranean castle. The corner blocks are curiously mosques topped with onion domes and crescent moons. William Craig is know to have used this cornerblock trademark. The date 1850 appears in the two lower corners. There is fringe along the lower border. This coverlet belonged to the grandmother of the donor, Jane Russell of Clinton County, Indiana.
label: Description
content: The Craig Family weavers consist of Scottish-born, William Craig, Sr. (1800-1880), Scottish-born cousin, James Craig (1819-1896), William Craig, Jr. (1824-1880), and James Craig (1823-1889) make up the two generations of weavers who intermarried with other Scottish immigrant weaving families, dominating the coverlet market in Floyd, Decatur, and Washington counties in Indiana. It is almost certain that their regional influence extended into Western Kentucky as well. The Craigs were prodigious weavers and entrepreneurs and the number of extant coverlets attest to this fact.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Decatur
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Nettie R. Jenkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12728
label: catalog number
content: T12728.000
label: accession number
content: 239334
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet, figured
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton, wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: Figured and Fancy (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: double weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 86 in x 64 1/2 in; 218.44 cm x 163.83 cm