Navy, Red, and Light Blue Coverlet

Woven Textile

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The Great Bend Museum

Name/Title

Navy, Red, and Light Blue Coverlet

Entry/Object ID

1972.02.02

Description

"Also know as the float weave, 18th and rural 19th century examples made by home and itinerant weavers on four-harness looms that were once as common a household appliance as dishwashers are today. Because they were fashioned on crude weaving machines, Overshot Coverlets are necessarily geometric in design incorporating a wide variety of stripe, square, diamond, medallion and other patterns. Made in two parts, they are always seamed in the middle. These readily available coverlets are undervalued and compliment 18th century and high country design." https://www.antiquetalk.com/index.php/antique-talk/25-antique-talk/clothing-textiles/120-antique-coverlets-an-american-heirloom#:~:text=In%20the%20corner%20block%20of%20his%20coverlet%20the,owner%27s%20town%2C%20county%2C%20state%2C%20and%20date%20of%20weaving.

Acquisition

Accession

1972.02

Source or Donor

Elinore Scott Hutchinson

Made/Created

Date made

1770 - 1820

Notes

Likely made and used by Roger Lewis Parry and Elizabeth Pugh

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Coverlet

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Bedcover

Nomenclature Class

Bedding

Nomenclature Category

Category 02: Furnishings