Greetings,
I just added an article about Star & Window coverlets onto my website under the Notebook page with the subpage of PA German Point Twill Related Coverlet Series which you can access via this link: http://www.coverletweaver.com/pa-german-point-twill-related-coverlet-series.html. It was originally written for newsletter for the Early American Coverlet Study Group of the Complex Weavers. The Star and Window pattern is one of my favorite patterns which I have not seen very often. It is a combination of the Nine Star pattern and the Window pattern. The lattice like tables are eliminate by both patterns yielding the nine stars and nine window panes.
The first time I saw a coverlet in this pattern was at the National Museum of the American Coverlet in Bedford, PA in October 2006. Next, I found the exact draft for it in the Joseph Capp & John Smith manuscripts from Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. My husband bought the coverlet shown below with the light blue plain weave foundation at an auction in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania in August 2011. Later that year, right before Christmas, I walked into one of our favorite antique shops in Lemoyne, PA and found the coverlet with the red, green and blue wool with the natural cotton foundation.
I have woven a small coverlet and a full-size coverlet of this pattern which you can see on my Gallery page at http://www.coverletweaver.com/gallery.html.
If you want to be on my email list for notification of future blogs, send me your email address to coverletweaver@gmail.com.
. Nine Stars Nine Window Panes Nine Stars & Nine Window Panes
I just added an article about Star & Window coverlets onto my website under the Notebook page with the subpage of PA German Point Twill Related Coverlet Series which you can access via this link: http://www.coverletweaver.com/pa-german-point-twill-related-coverlet-series.html. It was originally written for newsletter for the Early American Coverlet Study Group of the Complex Weavers. The Star and Window pattern is one of my favorite patterns which I have not seen very often. It is a combination of the Nine Star pattern and the Window pattern. The lattice like tables are eliminate by both patterns yielding the nine stars and nine window panes.
The first time I saw a coverlet in this pattern was at the National Museum of the American Coverlet in Bedford, PA in October 2006. Next, I found the exact draft for it in the Joseph Capp & John Smith manuscripts from Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. My husband bought the coverlet shown below with the light blue plain weave foundation at an auction in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania in August 2011. Later that year, right before Christmas, I walked into one of our favorite antique shops in Lemoyne, PA and found the coverlet with the red, green and blue wool with the natural cotton foundation.
I have woven a small coverlet and a full-size coverlet of this pattern which you can see on my Gallery page at http://www.coverletweaver.com/gallery.html.
If you want to be on my email list for notification of future blogs, send me your email address to coverletweaver@gmail.com.
. Nine Stars Nine Window Panes Nine Stars & Nine Window Panes