single weave (overall production method/technique)
double rose (center pattern)
red (overall color)
white (overall color)
blue (overall color)
gold (overall color)
Measurements:
overall: 82 in x 75 1/2 in; 208.28 cm x 191.77 cm
Object Name:
coverlet
coverlet, figured
Place Made:
United States: Ohio, Lima
United States: Ohio, Allen county
Date made:
19th century
Description:
Single-woven Jacquard coverlet with Double-roses pattern with flower basket border. "Lima Ohio" is woven into the two lower corners. The coverlet is red, white, blue and gold, and woven with wool and cotton yarns. The weaver is John Henry Meily. He was born December 15, 1817 in Lebanon, PA. He married December 3, 1839, Catharine Fisher (1820-1906) in Mansfield, Richland, OH. In 1844-45 he moved to Lima, OH. In addition to being a weaver he was also a practical iron molder and brickmaker and sold agricultural implements and real estate until he retired, according to Clarita S. Anderson. He died December 25, 1883, in Lima Allen, OH.
Has trademark corners of John Henry Meily. This coverlet was given to the museum by the weavers great-granddaughter, Miss Marjorie McClintock in 1964. She provided this information: J.H. Meily was born in Mansfield Ohio in 1820. In 1844-45 he migrated by covered wagon to Lima, Ohio where he practiced his trade as a weaver, and became a prominent citizen of the town. He had nine children-his daughter Olivia was a member of the first graduating class of the "Western Female Seminary "now the "Western College" at Oxford, Ohio. She later married Calvin. S. Bruce who was U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Cleveland administration.
