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A JACQUARD COVERLET

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A JACQUARD COVERLET
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, single weave, five colours; red, orange, green, blue and white, featuring a medallion center with spread-wing eagles, floral scroll borders, 81 ½"x72", fringed, Pennsylvania, circa 1840-1850. Condition: Elegant. 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)