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Household Object
Candlewick Bedspread
Unidentified, (active )
Unidentified
Primary
100 in. x 86 in.
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cotton
cotton
c. 1820-1830
1820
1830
Building Furnishings, Nomenclature
Household Object
A bedspread made of white cotton with a design stitched in candlewick. The design includes flowers and leaves with an urn in the center of the spread. The use of the candlewick stitch to embrioder bedspreads was popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
X1972.142
item
Florence Griswold Museum
6/3/1999