Coverletc. 1885108 x 83"CottonGift of Theo Merrill Cates, in memory of the artist2018.17.101567486947Florence Dodge Morton BrattenTextilesThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain. http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20753United StatesTextilesAdam ReichObject information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgThis group of textile comprises two woven coverlets and three quilts made by a mother and daughter from the 1880s through the 1940s. The family were pioneers to Kansas but after the death of the father and a five-month baby in the mid-nineteenth century the family moved around the Midwest and eastern United States, settling for some time in Ohio. Following the death of her husband, Florence Bratten pursued various occupations to support herself and surviving daughter as a kindergarten teacher, bookkeeper, farmer, and weaver. She left two journals, included in this gift, detailing her daily life and her coverlet production including patterns and instructions for setting up the looms. By the end of the nineteenth century she had instituted weaving as an occupational therapy for women who were institutionalized in asylums, often by husbands who wished to be rid of them. The two quilts by her daughter, Theodora, educated at Oberlin College, were made as part of the Colonial Revival taste and include a Sunbonnet Babies quilt, a popular pattern not represented in the museum’s collection. (2018.17.1-2018.17.5)http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20753http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster20753http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster2075318801890 2018 17 1 Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information. To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgThis group of textile comprises two woven coverlets and three quilts made by a mother and daughter from the 1880s through the 1940s. The family were pioneers to Kansas but after the death of the father and a five-month baby in the mid-nineteenth century the family moved around the Midwest and eastern United States, settling for some time in Ohio. Following the death of her husband, Florence Bratten pursued various occupations to support herself and surviving daughter as a kindergarten teacher, bookkeeper, farmer, and weaver. She left two journals, included in this gift, detailing her daily life and her coverlet production including patterns and instructions for setting up the looms. By the end of the nineteenth century she had instituted weaving as an occupational therapy for women who were institutionalized in asylums, often by husbands who wished to be rid of them. The two quilts by her daughter, Theodora, educated at Oberlin College, were made as part of the Colonial Revival taste and include a Sunbonnet Babies quilt, a popular pattern not represented in the museum’s collection. (2018.17.1-2018.17.5)