Overshot Coverlet; 1800-1850
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This is a blue and white, cotton and wool, overshot coverlet from the 19th century. The patterns used is similar to both “Governor’s Garden” and “Double Chariot Wheels.” The upper edge is hemmed, the lower edge has a warp fringe, and the remaining two sides have applied fringe. There is a border along three sides created from a fractional reduction of the main pattern. There coverlet measures 100 inches by 72 inches and was constructed from three panels which were woven as one length, cut, and seamed together to create the finished coverlet width. There is little provenance on this coverlet’s origins, but based on the design and construction, this coverlet was likely domestically produced by a woman or group of women sometime in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Coverlets
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T17390
label: accession number
content: 321804.210
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coverlet, overshot
label: Object Name
content: Coverlet
label: Object Name
content: overshot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: overshot (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 94 in x 94 in; 238.76 cm x 238.76 cm