Machine tufted (chenille) multicolor peacock bedspread; ca. 1955
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1955
notes: label: Description
content: Machine-tufted twin-sized bedspread with multicolor peacock design, ca. 1955. Made in Georgia. Purchased by Charles Edwin Bryan in “Peacock Alley, near Dalton, Georgia, as a gift for his mother, Ethel Sprowel Bryan, who lived in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. He was driving through Georgia to visit his mother and bought the bedspread at that time. The donor remembers the spread in use on her grandmother’s white painted iron bedstead. Ethel was born Nov 30, 1889, in Jeffersontown. Died 1970. The spread descended to Marcia Urton Bryan Horton (June 20 1916-Mar13 2007), the donor’s mother, and then to the donor, Laurel McKay Horton. The spread is machine tufted in white, and then over-tufted by machine with a multi-color peacock with spread, trailing tail. At the top of the spread are two multi-color floral motifs. The colors remain bright. The background white tufting is mostly gone. There is a triple line border in light and medium blue.
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: Gift of Laurel Horton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0367.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0367
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0367.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bedspread
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (ground and tufting yarn) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; machine tufted; overtufted (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 96 in x 73 in; 243.84 cm x 185.42 cm