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Snowball with Windows and Pine Tree Border

1800-1866

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Snowball with Windows and Pine Tree Border

1800-1866

Physical Qualities Cotton, wool, 92 1/2 x 70 1/2 in. (235 x 179.1 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of James and Edith Hoyt Garrett, Baltimore
Object Number 2012.228
A doubleweave coverlet composed of two loom widths each of 36", butted together and sewn by hand up the center. The field design consists of a repeating pattern 8 1/2" by 8 1/2", which is woven 9 1/2 times down the length and 6 times across the width. Each block contains a snowball motif with short "rays" emerging from a square of the opposite color. Two simple small squares are located at each corner of the block and a semi circular shaped band along each side. Where the blocks come together, a secondary block of 5 1/2" with cruciform arms and square block corners is formed at the intersections. Surrounding the central field on three sides are borders consisting of 9 tree patterns on the vertical border and 6 tree patterns along the bottom border with a grid-pattern at each bottom corner and tree motifs across. Each block with a tree pattern has a repeat measuring 9-1/2" vertically and 8 1/2" horizontally. The top edge of the coverlet has no border, but is bound with a 1/2" hand woven tape stitched by hand. At the bottom edge, each layer is handstitched and a loose untwisted self fringe of navy and tan warps is present.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift; Edie and James Garrett; inherited through the family; ex. coll. Barbara Garrett Reed (Mrs. William L. Reed), ex. coll. Robert Garrett (1875.1961) and Katharine Barker Garrett, ex. coll Mrs. Edward (Elizabeth Barbara Garrett) White

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