Aunt Lizzie Reagan's Overshot Coverlet; Tennessee; 1930
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Reagan, Lizzie
notes: label: Description
content: Lizzie Reagan wove this overshot coverlet in Tennessee in about 1930. It is made of cotton and wool, and woven in a design that is sometimes known as "Lee's Surrender." Lizzie Reagan was known as Aunt Lizzie, and was an expert on natural dyes. She was active in the movement to reintroduce "old" methods such as hand spinning and weaving at the Phi Beta Phi Settlement School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Such schools were started in the 1880s by benevolent societies in an attempt to encourage and preserve the local material culture, and provide the local artists with income.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee, Gatlinburg
label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee
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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 Patricia A. Erickson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0120.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0120.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0120
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet, overshot
label: Object Name
content: coverlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: overshot (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 89 in x 69 in; 226.06 cm x 175.26 cm