800

A JACQUARD COVERLET

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:1.00 USD
A JACQUARD COVERLET
<b>$15 Registration Fee applies.</b> Contact Auction House.
, double woven, in colours of red, blue, olive and white, floral motifs, 87"x80", maker, "S. Young" (signed in ink on patch in one corner), Pennsylvania, circa 1839. Condition: Excellent. Note: J.M. Jacquard, French, 1752-1834, inventor of the loom with endless belt of cords punched with holed, arranged to produce a figured weave, adapted by American weavers early/mid 19th. C. (Webster's)