A counterpane is a decorative cover on a bed. a bedspread (counterpoint (15-17 centuries), from coute pointe ; influenced by pane (13-17 centuries), from pan ( PANE))
A corruption of counterpoint, from the Latin culcita (a wadded wrapper, a quilt) When the stitches were arranged in patterns it was called culcita puncta, which in French became courte-pointe, corrupted into contre-pointe, counter-point, where point is pronounced poyn, corrupted into pane