Object Details
- Medaris, Millie
- Description
- In 1939, Millie Medaris’s granddaughter donated this “Ocean Wave” pieced quilt. Unfortunately, little is known at this time about the quilt maker. The “Ocean Wave” has been a popular pattern at various times and this mid-nineteenth-century quilt provides a competently rendered example.
- The quilt is composed of fourteen-inch blocks pieced of plain and printed triangles around plain cotton centers. A three-inch white cotton border frames the “Ocean Wave” pattern, enhanced by a ¾-inch printed cotton strip along the inside edges of the two sides. The fabrics used, typical of the late 1850s, are plain-colored, roller-printed, and checked cottons. All the pieced triangles are outline-quilted, with clamshell quilting on the white centers and double diagonal lines on the border. It is finely quilted, 10 stitches per inch.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Clara Searcy
- 1855-1860
- ID Number
- TE.T08358
- accession number
- 153091
- catalog number
- T08358
- Object Name
- quilt
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton (overall material)
- thread, cotton (overall material)
- filling, cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 88 in x 70 in; 223 cm x 179 cm
- place made
- United States: Indiana, Spencer
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- Quilts
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_556335
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-c92a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
