Colcha Embroidered Bedspread

Artist Jenny M. Wilson (1929 - 2019)

Artist Dorothy Calvert

Dateca. 1982

MediumEnglish crewel yarn on handwoven Maypole wool yarn sabanilla ground cloth

Dimensions115 × 74 in. (292.1 × 188 cm)

ClassificationsTextile, Fiber Arts, & Beadwork

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Suzanne Anderson

Object numberPC2020.3.1

DescriptionNeutral-colored bedspread embroidered with floral designs along the edge of the bedspread and on the interior of the spread that would fall within the shape of a bed. There is an embroidered rectangular “frame” in the center of the bedspread. There are two embroidered deer near the bottom corners of this frame. Embroidered in neutral-colored thread—near the top of the bedspread, at the level where the bedspread would be tucked under pillows—is the phrase “Woven and designed by Jenny M. Wilson. Embroidered by J.M.W. and Dorothy Calvert 1979-87.”

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