Description:
Doublecloth, woven coverlet in white, red, and blue with handled-urns with pineapple, flowers and berry clusters alternating with nesting birds feeding their four young fleglings, and facing birds in the center; a schoolhouse or church in corner blocks; a Christian and Heathen border; and a white fringe. This may have been made by Mary R. Goodrich (1815-1902) who married Calvin Whiting (1812-1884) in 1840; Calvin Whiting became the manager of the Massassoit Paper Mill in Holyoke. Mary Goodrich Whiting and her two daughters, Margaret C. Whiting (1860-1946) and Julia Draper Whiting (1843-1916), moved to Main St., Deerfield, in 1895. Their brother, Charles Goodrich Whiting (1842-1922) of Springfield, Massachusetts, worked for the "Springfield Republican." Margaret Whiting and Ellen Miller (1854-1929) were the co-founders of the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework in 1896.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton; Wool Link to share this object record:
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