Name/Title
Table Square: Muffin Cover 211, or Muffin Cloth 209, BlueDescription
A muffin cloth with a three-color silkscreen print on natural linen depicting breads, stalks of wheat, and tools for baking breads. This cloth, meant for covering baskets of muffins or bread, is designed to coordinate with Country Prints’ “Daily Bread” placemat sets, table runners, and tablecloths; see images.
Based on surviving Country Prints product tags, in the 1950’s this design was assigned the name and item number Muffin Cover 211. In the 1960’s it was Muffin Cloth 209; see images.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1958 - circa 1960Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“wert by hand”, lower left corner.Material
Unbleached Linen, Textile InkColor
Blue, Brown, Yellow Ochre
