Fragment of a geometric double cloth coverlet; Tennessee
date: label: date made
content: late 18th C.
notes: label: Description
content: Fragment of a geometric double cloth coverlet. Fragment of a sixteen harness double weave coverlet, said to have been woven by two professional male weavers. Fancy block pattern made of squares and rectangles in rose wool and coarse bleached cotton.
label: Description
content: Said to have been made by 2 traveling weavers in 1773, in Tennessee. The use of cotton makes this date uncertain (unlikely). The donor, Mrs. Laura M. Allen, was Director of Weaving in Mechanics' Institute, Rochester, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Because of the donor, Mrs. Allen's, importance in teaching and preserving early handweaving, and the use of materials she collected in books on the subject, NMAH should keep the fragments she donated in the collection, as part of the national woven coverlet collection.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee
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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.T04934.000
label: catalog number
content: T04934.000
label: accession number
content: 71965
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet fragment, geometric
label: Object Name
content: coverlet fragment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton, wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: double cloth (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 41.91 cm x 36.83 cm