Bedspread woven in the Catalpa Flower pattern by an enslaved woman

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A reverse cotton and wool coverlet in the Catalpa Flower weave pattern made by an enslaved woman on the Singleton Family Plantation in Hawkinsville, Georgia. The cream and indigo dyed blue coverlet has a stylized flower motif of blue circles set amid cream squares. The fabric has areas of loss, fraying, and previous repairs. There are cotton support strips adhered to the reverse.

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