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Place of Origin: American
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Early Horse Blanket in Forest Green and Burgundy
Located in York County, PA
Loom-woven horse blanket, made circa 1890-1910. The striped and geometric pattern consists of lime green, sunfire red, and ivory, against winter/summer, reversible grounds of forest ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique American Quilts
Materials
Wool
American Broken Star Pattern Quilt, Lancaster County Pennsylvania
Located in York County, PA
Broken Star pattern, patriotic American quilt with 13 stars, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, circa 1915-1920
Broken Star pattern quilt in red, white, and blue solids with a gingha...
Category
Early 20th Century American Quilts
Materials
Cotton
Outstanding Cigar Silk Piecework Table Cover
Located in York County, PA
OUTSTANDING CIGAR SILK PIECEWORKTABLE COVER WITH UNUSUALLY LONG RIBBON FRINGE AND GREAT GRAPHICS, 1880-1910:
Silk bands like these were used to wrap bunc...
Category
Early 20th Century American Quilts
Materials
Silk
Princess Feather Quilt Highly Unusual Red and Dark Blue, CA 1870-1885
Located in York County, PA
Red and blue princess feather pattern quilt with interspersed oak leaves and a sawtooth border. Made circa 1870-1885, this stunningly visual textile is highly unusual due to its dark blue ground and red elements. Most all early quilts...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique American Quilts
Materials
Cotton
Winterberry and Flying Geese Pattern Quilt, circa 1860-1870
Located in York County, PA
Winterberry pattern quilt with flying geese, in patriotic colors and with exceptional graphic impact, entirely hand-pieced and hand-quilted, circa 1860s-1870s
Made approximately b...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique American Quilts
Materials
Cotton
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Coverlets are loom-woven bedspreads. Unlike quilts, which are pieced from commercially produced fabrics, coverlets are painstakingly created from the ground up, so-to-speak, woven line-by-line. In America, many are jacquard-woven, Beiderwand textiles, the latter meaning that they are simultaneously made in two layers, one light and one dark, that mirror image one-another on the obverse and reverse. The resulting coverlet has what has been commonly termed a "summer" and "winter" side rather than having a front and back.
Dated coverlets began to appear in the early 1770s and were made through approximately the 1880s, though the most commonly occurring dates fall within the 1830s-1850s era. There were two basic genres, geometric and what is known as "figured and fancy." The latter of these regularly included floral elements, animals, buildings, and people, as well as text. Despite modern preconceptions, these were almost exclusively woven by men.
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The example presented in this write up is a extremely scarce. Made in Palmyra, New York, both the date, "1849," and name of the maker, "J. Vanness" [James Vanness, 1811 - 1872], are recorded in the weaving itself, along with the name of the person for whom it was made, Aurissa A. Gillett. Two-color, blue-and-white coverlets...
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Located in York County, PA
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