![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | Hand-loom weaving, plain & ornamental - Hooper, Luther
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| John Long's coverled book, 1815 - Long, John
Haycock Township, Bucks County, [Penn.], 1815 1 v. (52 p.) ; 195 x 197 mm John Long's Coverled Book is a handwritten manuscript containing diagrams and instructions for the weaving of geometric patterns into coverleds, or coverlets. The instructions are for double weaving on a loom, which is also called a summer and winter pattern. The book's original cover has been pasted onto new boards. Two hands can be identified in the text: that of the original author, John Long, and of the subsequent owne...
Keywords: Weaving; Pennsylvania; Bucks County; 19th century; Coverlets; Weaving instruction; Handlooms; Baltimore, Battle of, Baltimore, Md., 1814; Songs and music; United States; History; War of 1812; Pattern books
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