Object Details
- Description
- Coverlet sample; Eight harness double weave, woven at school for the blind in Faribault, Minn (the Minnesota State Academy for the Blind). Miss Ella Hoffner, Instructor. Woven with cotton and wool yarns in blue and white. fringed. The donor, Mrs. Laura M. Allen, was Director of Weaving in Mechanics' Institute, Rochester, N.Y.
- Because of the donor, Mrs. Allen's, importance in teaching and preserving early handweaving, and the use of materials she collected in books on the subject, NMAH should keep the fragments she donated in the collection, as part of the national woven coverlet collection.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Laura M. Allen
- 1916
- ID Number
- TE.T04817.000
- catalog number
- T04817.000
- accession number
- 71965
- Object Name
- coverlet sample
- Physical Description
- cotton, wool (overall material)
- double-woven (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 26.035 cm x 15.875 cm
- place made
- United States: Minnesota, Faribault
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Coverlets
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_621762
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-2351-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
