Weave Pattern: Lover’s Knot

Weave Pattern: Lover’s Knot

Coverlets

Hand weaving

Handicraft

Textile fabrics

The pattern name of this blue and white fragment is known as Lover’s Knot. The source of the name Lover’s Knot is unknown. Originally part of a full-size bedcover, this coverlet fragment was made between 1840 and 1890 by Pheniah Rogers Brown (1818-1892) of Jackson County, North Carolina. The warp is a single-ply natural cotton sett at forty ends per inch. The pattern weft is indigo dyed single-ply wool also sett at forty ends per inch. The Rogers and Brown families were well-known and active community participants in Jackson County in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A son of Pheniah Rogers Brown, R. Hamilton Brown, was a member of the first board of trustees of Western Carolina University, founded in 1889, in Cullowhee, NC According to Frances Brown, a great-granddaughter of the maker, the coverlet was used as a family blanket for many years and then divided into four pieces for use as curtains. Frances Brown saved this section and later had it framed.

Brown, Pheniah Rogers

Frances E. Brown Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1840/1890

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

12761

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2006_3_01

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

32.5" x 24.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival