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35828
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Passed down from generations, Ms. Watson has made hundreds of bedspreads over her lifetime. The particular knots and materials used are included.
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27877
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Rug is the most frequently listed bed covering in colonial probate documents from the Chesapeake region. Due to the lack of artifact-based evidence, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina conducted a study to determine the origins, materials, colors, and patterns of bed rugs as well as the extent and duration of their use from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.
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21914
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This article examines two bedcovers from the early-19th century in the collection of Old Salem Museums & Garden and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. Both bedcovers belonged to women who lived in Salem, North Carolina during the 1810s.
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