Hand-tufted peacock 'chenille' bedspread
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1930
notes: label: Description
content: An all-white twin or daybed 'chenille' bedspread, hand tufted cotton on a twill weave cotton ground. Unknown maker, 1st third 20th century (probably) northwest Georgia, near Dalton. 82 3/8" x 62 3/4" (selvage width).
label: Description
content: A single color spread. White ground and tufting; cotton ground cloth, twill weave, machine woven, selvage width, approx. 62 ¾”; Length of piece approx. 82 3/8”, both short ends machine hemmed, ¾” double turnover. Hand tufted with many-stranded white cotton yarn. Unusual center motif of peacock in profile with closed tail, oriented in landscape, not portrait format. 8” wide concentric ‘popcorn’ outer border; inner border of 8-petalled flowers and leaves on meandering stem. May have been a daybed cover. Probably 1910-30. Cotton twill ground cloth has a particularly nice hand – sturdy but soft.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Deborah J. Dell'Isola
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0080.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0080
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0080.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bedspread
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: twill weave; hand-tufted (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 82 3/8 in x 62 3/4 in; 209.2325 cm x 159.385 cm