Above are the two photos described in my previous blog.
“If these objects could talk” is the premise of the current exhibit entitled “By Design” at the Historical Society of Frederick County and the symposium. The decorative arts objects in the exhibit include two figured and fancy coverlets woven by Andrew Corick, a local weaver. The coverlets themselves provide us with what was made plus we know Andrew Corick wove the coverlet in Middletown, Frederick County (the who and where) based on the information in the corner of his coverlet. The when question can only be determined by comparing it to other coverlets.
It is harder to determine the who, where and when for geometric coverlets. But when we match the pattern and weave structure from a Pennsylvania German pattern manuscript to an extant coverlet, we can answer the "might" questions. The coverlets do talk.
Below starting from the left is a photo of an extant coverlet in a star work pattern, next is a drawdown of the same pattern found in the Biesecker manuscript and finally on the right is the pattern woven on my loom.
“If these objects could talk” is the premise of the current exhibit entitled “By Design” at the Historical Society of Frederick County and the symposium. The decorative arts objects in the exhibit include two figured and fancy coverlets woven by Andrew Corick, a local weaver. The coverlets themselves provide us with what was made plus we know Andrew Corick wove the coverlet in Middletown, Frederick County (the who and where) based on the information in the corner of his coverlet. The when question can only be determined by comparing it to other coverlets.
It is harder to determine the who, where and when for geometric coverlets. But when we match the pattern and weave structure from a Pennsylvania German pattern manuscript to an extant coverlet, we can answer the "might" questions. The coverlets do talk.
Below starting from the left is a photo of an extant coverlet in a star work pattern, next is a drawdown of the same pattern found in the Biesecker manuscript and finally on the right is the pattern woven on my loom.
