Coverlet
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This coverlet is woven in one wide piece with a warp of undyed and indigo cotton. The wool is in shades of green, red, brown, and indigo. At the center is a twelve-pointed star surrounded by various curvaceous foliate borders. There is a handwoven applied fringe of cotton and red, gold, and mauve wool on three sides.
This piece has a history of being owned by Susan Welty (1801-?), the great-great-great-grandmother of the donors. Mrs. Welty lived in Akron, Ohio. According to the 1880 U.S. Census, she was widowed and living as head of the household with her daughter Eliza Smith Barber (also widowed).
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