Originally Posted by
GramMER
It does not look like a quilt to me, but a handwoven bedspread.
The Appalachin (SP?) people still do these; you can buy them by the roadsides in the mountains of NC.
It's called a coverlet and it is woven. Generally, they are wool and I'm sure they were quite warm. Our guild did a coverlet documentation last year and we got many beautiful ones to document, but they are all so heavy and scratchy -not at all cozy and soft like an old quilt. I imagine if you don't have space to hang it, the options are limited. Our family has one, and I don't even like to put it over a chair and lean back on it, it's so scratchy. So it's in the cedar trunk until my children have to decide what to do with it