Object Details
- unknown
- Description
- An unknown quilter assembled this quilt using a striking combination of deep blue, red, and various plaids of wool, wool-cotton, and cotton fabrics. Five-and-a-half inch square blocks are pieced in a modified “Nine-patch” design. Each has a red center, blue rectangles, and plaid corner squares. They are set alternately with blue squares. These are framed by plaid triangles along the edges. It is quilted 8 stitches per inch. The binding, a ½ inch straight strip of the same blue fabric as the large squares, completes the quilt.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- 1850-1875
- ID Number
- TE.T17346.000
- catalog number
- T17346.000
- accession number
- 321804
- Object Name
- quilt
- Physical Description
- fabric, wool, wool/cotton, cotton (overall material)
- thread, cotton (overall material)
- filling, cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 89 in x 72 in; 227 cm x 184 cm
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Quilts
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_642533
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-5c88-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
