Berea College Summer and Winter coverlet Sample, 1938
date: label: date made
content: 1938
notes: label: Description
content: Berea College Summer and Winter coverlet Sample, 1938. Berea College Summer and Winter coverlet Sample, 1938. Coverlet sample in "Summer and Winter" weave with the "Snowball center and "Pine Tree" border. Modern, hand-woven, double-face, 7 harness 12 treadle weave of homespun yarn. The web consists of a tabby foundation in white cotton woven with a pattern of indigo-dyed wool as in "overshot" weaving--which closely interweaves with the ground. Copied from an old coverlet and made at Berea College in 1938.
label: Description
content: Coverlet sample in "Summer and Winter" weave with the "Snowball center and "Pine Tree" border. Modern, hand-woven, double-face, 7 harness 12 treadle weave of homespun yarn. The web consists of a tabby foundation in white cotton woven with a pattern of indigo-dyed wool as in "overshot" weaving--which closely interweaves with the ground. copied from an old coverlet and made at Berea College in 1938.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Anna L. Walker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T8206
label: catalog number
content: T08206.000
label: accession number
content: 147895
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet sample, Summer-and-Winter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton, wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: Summer-and-Winter weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 69 1/2 in x 25 in; 176.53 cm x 63.5 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 67 in x 24 1/2 in; 170.18 cm x 62.23 cm