Coverlet resources
Research at the McCarl Gallery
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In 1986, Katherine Hawthorne and Clarita Anderson embarked on an endeavor to document Jacquard-woven coverlets. Over the years, the two women amassed a database of over 14,000 textiles. Read more and download the database here.
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The McCarl Gallery houses the personal research collections of Clarita Anderson, Katherine “Kay” Hawthorne, and Rita J. Adrosko. Read more and access the finding aids here.
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The Visual Pattern Index is an ongoing effort to create a “field guide” to the commonly recurring motifs and patterns in figured & fancy coverlets. Read more and access the Index here.
Online coverlet collections
An extensive list of online coverlet documentation has been created during the course of compiling the Pattern Index. The link below leads to a working list of coverlets and coverlet collections, which continues to expand as more and more coverlets are located in various online resources. The list indicates how many coverlets are in each linked collection, and whether they are geometric or Figured & Fancy examples. Some collections are dedicated solely to coverlets, while other collections only one or a handful of coverlets amongst a variety of other items.