Peggy Bulger: "If you could tell me a little bit about these beautiful coverlets. They also have beautiful designs, but they might mean a little bit something, too. Can you tell me about that?"

Dorothy Thompson: "The coverlets are colonial overshot weaving, and it's a cotton warp with the pattern thread overshooting the warp threads. And these are either flowers, snowballs, or roses. And the pattern is Whig rose."

Bulger: "Whig rose?"

Thompson: "For the Whig party. This pattern also has the flowers, but it also has this trail. And the pattern name of this pattern is snail's trail and cat tracks.

When I was a senior in high school, I had taken weaving classes for two years. And so , the last year, I needed a new dress, so I wove the material and made the dress. And gee, I wish I could fit in that one again."