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Two peacock chenille bedspreads (yellow ground; white ground with pink peacock)

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Date: undated; peacock spreads are associated with the 1930s–1950s roadside trade
Place: 305 S Depot St, Dalton, GA 30720
Held by: Shaw Floors / Bandy art center, Dalton, Georgia
Collection: Photo: Tuft the World, taken at the Shaw Floors / Bandy art center, 305 S Depot St, Dalton, Georgia. The photograph is yours; the spreads belong to the center, so check its photo policy before publishing outside the database.
Materials: cotton
Themes: Chenille & candlewick, Machine tufting & Dalton

Cited in chapter 4, notes 7, 11

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Unknown maker. Two peacock chenille bedspreads (yellow ground; white ground with pink peacock), undated; peacock spreads are associated with the 1930s–1950s roadside trade. Shaw Floors / Bandy art center, Dalton, Georgia.

Research notes

Two spreads with the peacock, the motif that gave U.S. Highway 41 its nickname "Peacock Alley". The yellow spread is a fan-tailed peacock on a branch, worked almost entirely in rows of separate cut tufts ("dots") in blue, red, pink, green, brown and white, with a scalloped tufted edge. The white spread has a standing pink peacock with blue "eyes" in a dense tufted tail, framed by green and pink foliage. Dense areas (the bodies) are packed rows of tufts; outlines are single rows. To record on a return visit (ask the center): accession numbers, maker or label, whether hand- or machine-tufted (look at the back: even stitch length and straight rows suggest a single-needle machine), and dates. Context: https://handwovenmagazine.com/peacock-alley-once-chenille-capital-world/