Coverlet
1827
- Medium
- Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined
- Dimensions
- 230 × 193.4 cm (90 1/2 × 76 in.); Repeat: 15.5 × 17 cm (6 5/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Weaving - coverlet
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
19th centurycotton (textile)wool (textile)weaving - coverletstarsdouble clothgeometriccoverletweaving on loom with jacquard attachmentTextileweavinggeometric motifplain weaving
About
Due to ease of creating curved lines in Jacquard woven coverlets, it was common to include text in the designs of such textiles. The inscription on this coverlet includes the date the piece was made and the name of the person that it was woven for.