Book of designs for weaving coverlets. Designs drawn by a Pennsylvania German weaver, George Lauck, perhaps during the first 3 decades of the 19th century. The first date written in a family record on the first page is 1805. The last is 1829. The patterns are of the same type of block variations found in other German and Pennsylvania German pattern books of the late 18h and ealy 19th century. The second page is a family history in red ink with simple stylized flower decoration in red, yellow, blue, green and brown ink. There are 66 patterns draw out in color (include threading into); 19 pages of treadling diagrams and 130 tie-ups,entered on 15 pages. Plus 2 1/2 pages of dye recipes and prayers entered in the back of the book. A letter in the book from Reading, Pennsylvania is dated 1866. Later in life Lauck was weaving carpets, not coverlets, because coverlets were no longer in demand.
