Coverlets are loom-woven cotton and wool bedcoverings of German origin, which were made by domestic and professional weavers in the United States beginning in the first decade of the eighteenth century. Their diversity of patterns and weaving techniques reflected distinct regional differences throughout the United States. In Indiana, the first professional coverlet weavers were male immigrants from Scotland, England, Ireland, and Germany, and later, transplants from New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. This coverlet was made by New Jersey–born John LaTourette, the patriarch of the LaTourette family of weavers in Covington, Indiana. The LaTourettes were among the most highly regarded weavers in the state, known for their striking double-cloth coverlets made by jacquard loom with a double-lift mechanism. This mechanism formed two separate layers of cloth, one above the other, which joined at the pattern. The central design in this example was first popular with Indianan coverlet weavers of Scottish heritage; the blossoming flowers in the bottom two corners serve as the LaTourette family trademark. Coverlets made by John LaTourette featured only the flower and date in the trademark; after his death in 1849, his children, Sarah and Henry, added the word “year” above the flower to distinguish their work from their father’s (Anderson 1995, 59–60). The absence of “year” in the Fine Arts Museums’ coverlet suggests that it was one of John LaTourette’s last designs before his passing. llc