Bedcover

Museum Object Number 1951.0019

Object Name

Bedcover

Category

Textiles (Furnishing)

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Secondary Place of Origin

England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1770-1790

Materials

Cotton

Techniques

Woven (plain), Block printed, Resist style

Dimensions (inches)

92 (L) , 74.75 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

233.68 (L) , 189.87 (W)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Storey, Joyce. 1974 The Thames and Hudson Manual of Textile Printing.
• Information on Resist style, p. 11
[Chapter] Bide, Martin. Secrets of the Printer's Palette, Colors & Dyes in Rhode Island Quilts [Book] Welters, Linda & Ordoñez, Margaret. Down by the Old Mill Stream: Quilts in Rhode Island. 83-121.
• Information on Resist style, pp. 88, 92-94
[Book] Montgomery, Florence. 1970 Printed Textiles: English and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850.
• Published: p. 203, fig. 191
[Book] Montgomery, Florence. 1970 Printed Textiles: English and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850.
• Information on resist application, p. 202
[Book] Pettit, Florence Harvey. 1974 America's Indigo Blues : Resist-Printed and Dyed Textiles of the Eighteenth Century.
• Printed textile with same pattern, pp. 158-164, fig. 75, 76, 77, 79
[Book] Eaton, Linda. 2014 Printed Textiles: British and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850.
• Published: p. 134, fig. 6.14