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Recent Examples of counterpaneBeneath wall text describing Báthory’s ghoulish crimes and her macabre punishment, bloody mannequins in nightshirts, one with its throat hideously cut, sprawl across a counterpane.—Sam Lipsyte, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022 The bed was draped in a cranberry-red silk counterpane.—Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013
For this reason, lightweight bedding is a must, and many of us are changing out warmer down comforters and duvets for lighter bedding options such as coverlets or quilts ahead of the warmer months to come.
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Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
16 Apr. 2025
Honestly, the coverlets deserve a three-bedroom house, one color in each room.
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Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 Mar. 2025
This lightweight bedspread has a classic quilt design.
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Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
16 Apr. 2025
Cue the viridian green of the new Amedeo bed, with its padded structure and fine silk upholstery entirely hand-embroidered with a jungle motif that continues on the bedspread and the bolster pillows, or the deep red of the Pascal armchair with a dragon embroidered on the back.
These include an ornate 17th century cabinet decorated with Peruvian silver and five historic barkcloth textiles from various Pacific islands, including a bedcover that once belonged to Hawaiian Queen Ka’ahumanu.
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Carolina A. Miranda,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2023
Perhaps standing in the doorway of a parent’s bedroom, or sprawled out on the bedroom floor, or even flopped on top of the bedcovers themselves, otherwise sphinxlike teens often share freely what’s on their minds at a time when parents might want to curl up and drift off.
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