Unknown
Overshot Coverlet
1800-1899
Scroll
Unknown
Overshot Coverlet
1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Linen or cotton ground, wool supplementary wefts, Overall: 101 x 85 1/2 in. (256.5 x 217.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of A. Keith McClung Jr. (1935-2015) and Sarah Bond McClung (1935-2021), Baltimore, MD.
Object Number
2007.194
A rectangular overshot-woven coverlet composed of three loom widths (28-3/4", 27-1/2 ", 29") that are butted together and joined with hand stitching. The pattern is matched at the seams. This coverlet has a ground of white cotton warp and white cotton weft with supplementary wefts of blue and red wool creating patterns throughout.. The pattern name is to be determined. The top and bottom edges of the coverlet are turned under ¼" and hemmed by hand stitching.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2007; A. Keith McClung Jr. (1935-2015) and Sarah Bond McClung (1935-2021), Baltimore, MD by descent, 1982; A. Keith McClung Sr. (1898-1982), Point Pleasant, WV by descent, 1945; Lewis Edgar McClung (1865-1944) and Margaret Collison McClung (1867-1945), Clintonville, WV by descent, 1915; Andrew Hutchinson McClung (1832-1915), Rupert, WV.
"Making the Connection," The Baltimore Museum of Art, Annual Report 2007, p. 27, ill.
Helene Bress, The Coverlet Book: Early American Handwoven Coverlets, Vol. I, Gaithersburg, Maryland: Flower Valley Press, inc, 2003, p. 290, etc. Similar but not the same pattern.
Sadye Tune Wilson and Doris Finch Kennedy, Of Coverlets: the legacies, the weavers, Nashville, Tennessee: Tunstede, 1983, pp. 109-123.pp.
Sadye Tune Wilson and Doris Finch Kennedy, Of Coverlets: the legacies, the weavers, Nashville, Tennessee: Tunstede, 1983, pp. 109-123.pp.
Maker
Unknown
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
