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C   Cooke, Edward S., Jr., ed. Upholstery in America & Europe from the Seventeenth Century to World War I. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1987. (NK 3242 .A1 U6 1987)
L Lynn, Catherine. Wallpaper in America from the Seventeenth Century to World War I. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980. (NK 3412 .L9 1980)
M Montgomery, Florence M. "18th-Century American Bed and Window Hangings." In Upholstery in America & Europe from the Seventeenth Century to World War I, ed. Edward S. Cooke, pp. 163-173. New York: Norton, 1987. (NK 3242 .A1 U6 1987)
  Montgomery, Florence M. Printed Textiles: English and American Cotton and Linens, 1700-1850. New York: Viking Press, 1970. (NK 8843 .A2 M6 1970)
  Montgomery, Florence M. Textiles in America, 1650- 1870. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984. (TS 1767 .M66 1984)
N Nylander, Jane C. "Bed and Window Hangings in New England, 1790-1870," In Upholstery in America & Europe from the Seventeenth Century to World War I, ed. Edward S. Cooke, pp. 175-185. New York: Norton, 1987. (NK 3242 .A1 U6 1987)
  Nylander, Jane C. Fabrics for Historic Buildings. Rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1990. (TS 1767 .N94 1990)
R Ring, Betty. Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. (NK 9112 R57 1993)
  Ring, Betty. Let Virtue Be a Guide to Thee: Needlework in the Education of Rhode Island Women, 1730-1830. Providence, RI: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1983. (LC 1758 .R56 1983)
S Sherrill, Sarah B. "Oriental Carpets in 17th and 18th Century America." In The Art of the Weaver, pp.157-182. New York: Universe Books, 1978. (TT 848 .A 763)
  Swan, Susan Burrows. Plain and Fancy: American Women and their Needlework, 1700-1850. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. (TT 715 .S9)
  Swan, Susan Burrows. A Winterthur Guide to American Needlework. New York: Crown Publishers, a Winterthur Book, 1976. (NK 8812 .S95 1976)


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Evans, Nancy Goyne. American Windsor Chairs. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1996. (NK 2715 E92 1996)
Evans, Nancy Goyne. "Design Sources for Windsor Furniture." Parts I & II. Antiques 133 (1988): 282-297, 1128-43.

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