Alling Coverlet Museum Displays World-Class Collection

One of Historic Palmyra’s five museums, the Alling Coverlet Museum in Palmyra, New York, displays an impressive 500 bed-sized coverlets, along with a few quilts. A coverlet is a loom-woven bed covering usually made of cotton or linen.
Bonnie J. Hays, executive director of Historic Palmyra, said that equipment developed in 1804 by Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard, the Jacquard loom attachment, enabled people to make coverlets in whatever creative design they wished. By inserting punched cards into the attachment, they could make coverlets in custom designs, which launched a whole industry of traveling coverlet makers.
“You would have to lay it out with graph paper,” Hays said. “It’s kind of like needlepoint. Before that time, people could weave them. People wove baskets during Jesus’ time.”

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