counterpane

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To decorate it, colonial women created colorful counterpanes, developing a prideful home industry that ensured that there would be no idle hands in the house.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its mythological Greeks and Trojans chase each other around marble bathtubs and across perfumed counterpanes.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the table by his bedside were his medicines and milk, and he was covered by counterpanes lent by the other lodgers.

From Fairfax and His Pride by Vorst, Marie Van

I have quilted counterpanes and chest covers in fine white linen, in various patterns of my own invention.

From Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them by Webster, Marie D. (Marie Daugherty)

I say to myself: “God made the country, and man made the town, but who on earth has manufactured these monstrous counterpanes, and for what purpose?”

From Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera by Jr.