Object Details
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- Description
- The “Carolina Lily” pattern, popular in the mid-19th century, was chosen for this example of an album quilt. Roller-printed red and blue-green cotton fabrics make up the pieced and appliquéd pattern. The “Carolina Lily” blocks, quilted in diagonal lines, alternate with plain white blocks each quilted with a different floral design. There is a 1-7/8-inch sawtooth band inside the 7-inch plain white border. The border is quilted with a scrolling feathered vine. The quilting is finely done at 12 stitches/inch.
- Twenty-one of the “Carolina Lily” blocks have a signature along the stem. Six of the surnames are Crumbaker and six are Stoutsenberger, all born in Lovettsville, Virginia. These families are buried in the New Jerusalem Church Cemetery, the Saint James Reformed Cemetery, or the Lovettsville Union Cemetery. It is not known why or for whom the quilt was made, but the many signatures indicate the place where it was most likely made and used.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss Elva L. McKinney
- 1840-1860
- ID Number
- TE.T11176
- accession number
- 205528
- catalog number
- T11176
- Object Name
- quilt
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton (overall material)
- thread, cotton (overall material)
- filling, cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 90 in x 81 in; 229 cm x 206 cm
- place made
- United States: Virginia, Lovettsville
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Cultures & Communities
- Domestic Furnishings
- Textiles
- Quilts
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Community
- Record ID
- nmah_556367
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-d02a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
