Kentucky Coverlets
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A 1938 illustrated booklet by Lou Tate on Kentucky coverlets, drawn from her collection of more than three thousand weaving drafts gathered since 1928. It explains the overshot weave typical of home-woven coverlets and briefly covers double geometric weave, summer and winter, reversed twill and jacquard coverlets. Most of the booklet is numbered illustrations of named patterns with owners and weavers credited, grouped into pattern families such as Double Diamonds, Governors Garden, Opposites, Gentlemans Fancy, Chariot Wheels, Nine Snowball, Whig Rose, Pinebloom and Double Bowknot. It includes reproductions of early drafts, photographs of weavers and looms, and a name index.
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