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Red & White Chenille Bedspread

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Lamps, Lighting Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 100.00 USD
Red & White Chenille Bedspread
There is probably no place in the US that better loved chenille in the 1940s and 50s than Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee, unless it was the tourists who traveled there. The log cabin where most of the East Tenn. Pieces came from had a wonderful white interlocking circle in chenille with a center of red diamond panels that made for a visual pattern. Made for a full size bed but would work on a queen, this is an oversized piece that is in good condition. Easily 1940s or 50s, probably made in Georgia where most of the better chenilles were manufactured. The main and secondary roads in Sevier County in this era had chenille bedspreads hanging from clothes lines as selling props all along the main roads with tourists stopping to purchase.