Abbie Corey Bracket overshot coverlet; Connecticut; early 19th C.
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1825
name: label: owner; possible maker
content: Brackett, Abbie Corey
notes: label: Description
content: Abbie Corey Brackett is said to have woven this cotton and wool overshot coverlet on the Corey farm in Plainfield, Connecticut, in the early 19th century. It is woven in two sections, each forty inches wide. The center seam of this single-woven coverlet is sewn with linen thread. The attached fringe is eight inches deep, and made of hand-knotted wool. In the 18th and 19th centuries, very few women were involved in weaving anything as complicated as a coverlet. However, women were involved in spinning fiber into yarn. They would take the yarn to a professional weaver and pay him to make them a coverlet. The coverlet might have been used immediately or it could be put into the maker's dowry, or hope chest, for use after marriage.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place woven
content: United States: Connecticut, Plainfield
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gertrude O. S. Cleveland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T9125
label: catalog number
content: T09125.000
label: accession number
content: 169638
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet, overshot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: overshot (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 80 in x 98 in; 203.2 cm x 248.92 cm