Blanket, Embroidered Wool

Date1850-1875

Maker Ann Priscilla Drummond Leach (1815 - 1893)

OriginAmerica, West Virginia, Monroe County

MediumWool with wool embroidery (fiber identification by microscope)

DimensionsOW: 64"; OL: 78"

Credit LineGift of Miss Mary B. Leach.

Object number1969-211

DescriptionThis is a rectangular blanket woven of natural white wool in twill weave. Both ends are finished with rolled hems that are overcast with angled stitches of pink and black wool. The hemmed ends are further ornamented with a zig-zag pattern of running stitches, alternating 1 blue and 2 pink lines. The sides are finished with the selvages. The blanket is woven of two panels, butted and seamed down the center. There are scattered mended holes.
Label TextThis warm napped twill blanket descended in the family of the donor, whose West Virginia grandmother, Ann Priscilla Drummond (Mrs. Edmund Leach), is credited with having woven it. The natural white wool is further ornamented with running stitch needlework at both hem ends.
ProvenanceWeaver and donor's grandmother Ann Priscilla Drummond (Mrs. Edmund Leach), born 1815 in Monroe County, West Virginia, and died 1893, also in Monroe County.
Her son William Henderson Leach (1849-1929) of Monroe County, West Virginia.
Mary B. Leach (1897-1999), donor.