Saint Vincent College (The Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery)

Saint Vincent college's Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery will increase scholarly and public access to its Anderson/Hawthorne Textile Database and Research Collection (A/H Database & RC), a repository of 19th century woven coverlet data. The McCarl Coverlet Gallery will organize and rehouse the entire collection, create digital records for files on 9,000 weavers, and enable discovery of data online. The Collection is an essential tool for researchers, scholars, institutions, and the public of hand-loomed coverlets. By adding the database to the WorldCat online network and ArchiveGrid, the gallery will also make progress toward a strategic goal to provide public access to the A/H Database & RC.