We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Weft-Loop Woven Counterpanes in the New RepublicfThe Rediscovery of a Textile Legacy.
- Authors
Horton, Laurel
- Abstract
Among the various quilted and embroidered white bedcovers surviving from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American collectors and curators have encountered curious woven textiles with designs of raised loops. Lacking an authoritative interpretive framework, these bewildered individuals offered a variety of interpretations for these distinctive weft-loop bedcovers. Recent research on a tradition of handwoven bedcovers produced in Bolton, Lancashire (UK), suggests that imported Bolton counterpanes produced a significant influence on both woven and embroidered counterpanes in the New Republic era and beyond. From an examination of white counterpanes found in American museums and private collections, the author interprets the relationships among imported Bolton counterpanes, American-made woven counterpanes showing Bolton influences, weft-loop counterpanes influenced by other textile traditions, and American embroidered "candlewick" counterpanes influenced by woven textiles.
- Subjects
COVERLETS; QUILTS; TEXTILES; ART techniques; WEAVING; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Uncoverings, 2014, Vol 35, p90
- ISSN
0277-0628
- Publication type
Article