Coverlet

Textiles

1850

William Craig, Jr. (American, c. 1824-1880)
United States, Indiana, Decatur County, Greensburg

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: William Craig, Jr. (Weaver)
Title: Coverlet
Place: Indiana (Object made in)
Date: 1850
Medium: Cotton and wool, plain weave double cloth; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; two loom widths joined; fringed
Inscriptions: Inscription: W Craig Greensburg DC co IA 1850
Dimensions: 229.8 × 229.2 cm (90 1/2 × 90 1/4 in.); Repeat: 52.1 × 51.1 cm (20 1/2 × 20 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
Reference Number: 1916.384a
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Mildred Davison and Christa C. Mayer-Thurman, Coverlets: A Handbook on the Collection of Woven Coverlets in The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973), 195.

Art Institute of Chicago, American Coverlets, July 14–Oct. 14, 1973.

Frank W. Gunsaulus (1856-1921), Chicago, by 1916 [Davison and Mayer-Thurman 1973, p. 195]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1916.

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