Coverlet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This coverlet is woven in one wide piece with a warp of undyed and indigo cotton. The wool is in shades of green, red, brown, and indigo. At the center is a twelve-pointed star surrounded by various curvaceous foliate borders. There is a handwoven applied fringe of cotton and red, gold, and mauve wool on three sides. This piece has a history of being owned by Susan Welty (1801-?), the great-great-great-grandmother of the donors. Mrs. Welty lived in Akron, Ohio. According to the 1880 U.S. Census, she was widowed and living as head of the household with her daughter Eliza Smith Barber (also widowed).

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art