Object Details
- quilter
- unknown
- Description
- An elaborate eagle and an American flag block adorn this patriotic example of a mid-19th-century album quilt. Baskets of fruit and flowers, wreaths, and cornucopias, all typical motifs of the period, complete the quilt. Some of the most extravagantly decorated blocks appear on a distinctive group of presentation quilts that were made in or near Baltimore, Maryland, and are now popularly known as Baltimore album quilts.
- The quilt contains both hand and machine quilting. A two-thread chain-stitch machine was used to outline some of the appliquéd motifs and anchor the bias binding on the edges. The background was hand-quilted with feather plumes, clamshells, and diagonal grid patterns, 8-9 stitches per inch.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. C. D. Rhodes
- 1845-1852
- ID Number
- TE.E363155
- accession number
- 117457
- catalog number
- E363155
- Object Name
- quilt
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton, velvet, silk (overall material)
- thread, cotton (overall material)
- filling, cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 87 in x 86 in; 222cm x 219 cm
- place made
- United States: Maryland, Baltimore
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Quilts
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_556267
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-bb4b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
