IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This 19th century single-woven ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Jacquard, single weave coverlet in ...

LIMA — The heat wave that gripped northwestern Ohio in the sweltering, un-air-conditioned early summer of 1913 had been “most intolerant” and “many a prayer went up” for relief, the Lima Daily News ...

As the snow swirls and temperatures plummet to single digits, the lure of a crackling fire and climbing under warm covers with a good book peaks. The National Museum of the American Coverlet, a small ...

Homes in Colonial America and in Europe during the 1600s and early 1700s were often only one or two rooms. Because the bed was the largest and possibly the most expensive piece of furniture in the ...

Editor’s note: This column is the second and last part of a series. Read the previous column at http://on.dnj.com/2lzGdXH. In our second installment of 19th century ...

Mirror photo by Patt Keith / An historic coverlet that was woven by Ambros Miller, an immigrant who came to Newry, is on display on Anna Baker’s bed at Baker Mansion. In time for holiday tours at the ...

For 36 years Patrick McKay has periodically asked Gail Kemler to consider donating a rare woolen coverlet to the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm. A coverlet is a type of blanket used for ...

Q: This coverlet belonged to my great-great-grandmother. Do you have any information about it? It is a double-weave coverlet with a square that reads “Erie County, N.Y. 1838.” A: If you lived in rural ...