Embroidered whitework coverlet
Mercy Emerson Tomlinson
ca. 1820 · Cotton embroidered with cotton thread · The American Wing
This whitework coverlet is made of three lengths of white cotton fabric that have been stitched together. Some of the decorated areas are tufted, and others are embroidered with heavy white cotton thread in satin stitch. The pattern consists of an overall floral vine. The piece is fringed on all four sides.
- Artist
- Mercy Emerson Tomlinson
- Date
- ca. 1820
- Medium
- Cotton embroidered with cotton thread
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Cora Parker, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Pamelia Ann Parker, 1927
