Object Details
- owner; possible maker
- Brackett, Abbie Corey
- Description
- Abbie Corey Brackett is said to have woven this cotton and wool overshot coverlet on the Corey farm in Plainfield, Connecticut, in the early 19th century. It is woven in two sections, each forty inches wide. The center seam of this single-woven coverlet is sewn with linen thread. The attached fringe is eight inches deep, and made of hand-knotted wool. In the 18th and 19th centuries, very few women were involved in weaving anything as complicated as a coverlet. However, women were involved in spinning fiber into yarn. They would take the yarn to a professional weaver and pay him to make them a coverlet. The coverlet might have been used immediately or it could be put into the maker's dowry, or hope chest, for use after marriage.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gertrude O. S. Cleveland
- 1800-1825
- ID Number
- TE.T9125
- catalog number
- T09125.000
- accession number
- 169638
- Object Name
- coverlet, overshot
- Physical Description
- overshot (overall production method/technique)
- wool (overall material)
- cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 80 in x 98 in; 203.2 cm x 248.92 cm
- place woven
- United States: Connecticut, Plainfield
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Coverlets
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_620401
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-44c2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
