Coverlet

Date

1840

Medium

Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacing of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; main warp and supplementary patterning weft fringe; two loom widths joined

Dimensions

260.5 × 234.2 cm (102 1/2 × 92 1/4 in.); Center repeat: 38.7 × 32.7 cm (15 1/8 × 12 7/8 in.); Side borders: H.: 24.3 cm (9 1/2 in.); Bottom border: H.: 25.9 cm (10 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Gift of Edith Arnold and Murray Bersten