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Bed rug (bedcover) inscribed "Mary Foot AD 1778"

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Made by: Mary Foot
Date: 1778
Place: Connecticut (probably)
Held by: Winterthur Museum
Number: 1960.0594
Materials: wool
Size: 80 × 80.5 in. (fringe 2.25 in.)
Themes: Early tufting: bed rugs & needlework pile

View at the source Cited in chapter 2, notes 1, 2, 3, 4

Cite this source

Mary Foot. Bed rug (bedcover) inscribed “Mary Foot AD 1778”, 1778. Winterthur Museum, 1960.0594. museumcollection.winterthur.org/object/16695.

Research notes

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich links it to an "E.F." bed rug (Elizabeth Foote) at the Connecticut Historical Society and an unmarked rug at Historic Deerfield; all three may commemorate the Foot siblings' marriages on 5 November 1778. A dated, named, pre-1800 needle-made pile textile at Winterthur: a strong anchor object for a tufting-lineage argument.