Description:
Plain weave cotton coverlet decorated with a dense, block-printed floral design and glazed for a shiny finish. These kinds of printed cottons, generically known as chintzes in America by the early 19th century, were sometimes described in the period as "Indian," because of their supposed imitation of previously fashionable Indian painted and printed, mordant- and resist-dyed cottons. This example's design features closely-set flowers on a printed yellow ground (similar ones in red survive in other collections). The pattern is a straight repeat that is 11.75" long by 17.25" wide, repeated twice across the selvage width. A coarser, more open-weave white cotton backs the bed covering, and there is no batting of wadding in between the two layers. The face and backing fabrics were eachmade up separately before being joined togetehr to make the bed covering. The piece is edged on all four sides with blue satin weave silk ribbon, and a star or bow of the same ribbon adorns each of the four corners. The coverlet was a gift from Henry N. Flynt to his wife Helen in January of 1963.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Silk Link to share this object record:
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