Tufted toilet seat cover with Peacock & Flower design, 1950s
date: label: Date made
content: 1948-1959 (Donor thought it was early 1950's)
notes: label: Description
content: Green tufted or chenille toilet seat cover with multicolor peacock and flower design. Part of set, with matching bath mat.Cotton ground and tufting yarns. Cover held in place with a green cotton tape.The design is a peacock in bright red, yellow, hot pink, 2 shades of lavender, and purple. There is a loop fringe encircling the edges.
label: Description
content: The tufted textile industry began in and around Dalton, Georgia in the very late 19th century – an industry begun, fostered by, and employing women. At first the product of hand-sewing in the workers’ homes, in the 1930s the industry had proven so successful that men entered the business, opening new, mechanized factories to take advantage of the popularity of the products. One of the most popular designs, common on the “spreadlines” of the Dixie Highway, where individuals and factory owners alike promoted their wares to travelers, was the peacock. This bathroom set is typical of an extremely popular decade or two of taste in many American homes. The peacock, brilliantly multi-colored, adorned bathmats and toilet seat covers, bedspreads and bathrobes, beach capes and pillow shams. The tufted textile industry would morph in Dalton Georgia into the city’s important carpet industry. But its roots in the woman-owned and woman-operated world of the hand-tufted chenille spread should be remembered. This bath set complements other examples of Georgia's tufted textiles in the collections.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection: # 2000.145.2; Gift of Grace S. Poellmitz
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia, Dalton
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Textile History Museum Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0232.42
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.42
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Toilet seat cover
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; machine tufting (overall production method/technique)