Fragment of an overshot coverlet; Clinch Mountain District, Tennessee, 1924
date: label: date made
content: 1924
notes: label: Description
content: Fragment or sample of a 4-harness overshot coverlet: "Sun, Moon, and Stars," woven with fine, bleached cotton warp and weft yarns, overshot with white angora wool yarn, by a melungeon woman 75 years of age in 1924, a native of Clinch Mountain District, TN. Mrs. Mary M. Atwater would call the pattern "The Whig Rose."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee
label: place made
content: United States: Clinch Mountain
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Laura M. Allen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T04947.000
label: catalog number
content: T04947.000
label: accession number
content: 71965
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet fragment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton, angora wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: overshot (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 4 in; 25.4 cm x 10.16 cm