Burgundy and Off-White Block Quilt

Object Details

Artist

Ira Blount

Caption

This burgundy and cream-colored quilt is made of two different five-inch block patterns: a traditional four-patch square and a half-square triangle. The blocks are arranged in checkerboard fashion across the quilt. The quilt is hand-stitched along the diagonals using white thread in the cream-colored areas, and with red thread in the areas of burgundy cloth.

Ira Blount made this quilt during his membership with the Daughters of Dorcas and Sons, a Washington, DC quilting guild that teaches and shares a love of quilting in local schools, hospitals, and civic centers. The quilt’s opposite color patterns and mirror symmetry demonstrate the artist’s mastery of the visual language of quilting.

Cite As

Gift of Ira Blount

2005

Accession Number

2011.0004.0129

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

quilt

Medium

cotton, polyester, batting, ink

Dimensions

30 × 30 in. (76.2 × 76.2 cm)

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Record ID

acm_2011.0004.0129

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dl827f09332-2966-4ed0-82c6-277236cfcdd3