A Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology catalog (Number 7) of household textiles used by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut, between about 1750 and 1850 and given to the U.S. National Museum in the 1890s. It describes quilts, embroidered counterpanes, bed hangings, sheets, ticking, table linens, towels, fringes and tapes, overshot and Monk's belt coverlets, a reversible rug, and imported printed fabrics, with thread counts, fibers, twist, dimensions and dating. A closing chapter surveys eighteenth-century textile manufacture in America, and appendices cover cleaning and mounting methods for exhibition, with a bibliography. Illustrated with numerous photographs and historical engravings.