Overshot coverlet panel; 19th century
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: This blue and white, overshot coverlet panel was executed in a “Double Bowknot with Window Sashes” pattern sometime in the nineteenth century. The white warp and weft ground cloth yarns are 2-ply, S-twist, Z-spun cotton, and the supplementary pattern weft blue yarns are Z-spun wool singles. The coverlet panel has side selvedges. There is sewing thread along one side, indicating it was once attached to another panel. Coverlets not woven on a broadloom feature center seams because the width of the fabric was determined by the width of the loom and the weaver’s arm span. This panel measures 95 inches by 30 inches.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T17391
label: catalog number
content: T17391.000
label: accession number
content: 321804.211
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet panel, overshot
label: Object Name
content: coverlet panel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: overshot (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 95 in x 30 in; 241.3 cm x 76.2 cm