Blanket

Museum number:
2-63931
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020063931
Alternate number:
3986 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Child’s blanket. Cream plain weave wool square embroidery with white silk satin stitch. Edged with complicated pattern of small scallops looping over. Wool. Plain weave, embroidery. Color: cream, white. 30 inches by 31 inches. Good condition. Two moth holes. “Even moth holes are antique.” Made 1878 for William Randolph Sayre born that year by Clara E. Barton.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Maker or artist:
Clara E. Barton
Materials:
Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings) and Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
1878
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 30 inches and length 31 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-63931, described as Child’s blanket. Cream plain weave wool square embroidery with white silk satin stitch. Edged with complicated pattern of small scallops looping over. Wool. Plain weave, embroidery. Color: cream, white. 30 inches by 31 inches. Good condition. Two moth holes. “Even moth holes are antique.” Made 1878 for William Randolph Sayre born that year by Clara E. Barton.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-63931, described as Child’s blanket. Cream plain weave wool square embroidery with white silk satin stitch. Edged with complicated pattern of small scallops looping over. Wool. Plain weave, embroidery. Color: cream, white. 30 inches by 31 inches. Good condition. Two moth holes. “Even moth holes are antique.” Made 1878 for William Randolph Sayre born that year by Clara E. Barton.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-63931, described as Child’s blanket. Cream plain weave wool square embroidery with white silk satin stitch. Edged with complicated pattern of small scallops looping over. Wool. Plain weave, embroidery. Color: cream, white. 30 inches by 31 inches. Good condition. Two moth holes. “Even moth holes are antique.” Made 1878 for William Randolph Sayre born that year by Clara E. Barton.

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