Woman's Blanket
Date:
c. 1885
Medium:
Wool fabric, silk ribbon, glass beads
Dimensions:
76 x 54 1/2 inches (193 x 138.4 cm)
length of remaining fringe: 3/4 inches (1.9 cm)
length of remaining fringe: 3/4 inches (1.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase
Object number:
81.579
Blanket of dyed red wool with striped selvages and having a variety of floral motif decorations. Designs are: five- petaled flower of a two-leafed stem; elaborate leaves with irregular heart forms; an X with a two-pronged tulip form on a thick crescent stem; a two-pronged tulip form at each end of two confronting parallel lines.
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