Handwoven dimity bedcover, Virginia, 1844
date: label: date made
content: 1840
label: date made
content: 1844
notes: label: Description
content: Bedspread, bedcover, or coverlet. Fringed, dimity weave bedspread in an old pattern of lengthwise stripes in raised effect, using fine warp yarns set close in the reed. The reverse of the fabric is crossed by long skipes of weft, or filling, and distinctly a wrong side. Both the frnge and counterpane were woven in Dinwiddie County Virginia in 1844, by Miss Julia A. Poole, (Mrs.B.A. Hawks, who prepared the homespun yarn from cotton she had grown.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Fannie Hamilton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T2138
label: catalog number
content: T02138.000
label: accession number
content: 57609
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bedcover
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)