Pink and yellow pinwheel quilt made by Elizabeth Salter Smith

Object Details

Created by

Elizabeth Anne Salter Smith, American, 1850 - 1937

Description

A pink, yellow, and white quilt with a repeating block design of hand-pieced and appliqued pinwheels. There are nine (9) pinwheels arranged in three (3) columns of (3) and surrounded by sashing. The pinwheels are hand-pieced from plain white and double pink prints creating a striped effect. Each wheel has a saw tooth border and an appliqued pink center. The pinwheel is hand-appliqued to a pink ground. The sashing and the border are made from a bright yellow fabric with a small repeating print of red and black floral bursts and black stippled background. A pink stripe runs through the sashing and there are four (4) pink and yellow nine-patches in the corners of the sashing. The blocks and sashing are surrounded by a border made of the yellow fabric, with two pink strips sewn at each corner of the border. The quilt has thin batting and is backed with a plain off-white fabric. It is hand bound with a red and white striped fabric. The quilting is done by hand in white thread with different design elements including lines that following the wheel of each block, parallel lines in the background of the block, and a scallop or fan motif in the sashing and border. A strip of Velcro is added along the top back edge of the quilt. A fabric label is sewn at the back bottom proper left corner with hand written ink reading "CAVIGGA #8 / PINWHEELS 84" w x 87" l".

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

1880-1920

Object number

2013.162.6

Restrictions & Rights

No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Type

quilts

Medium

cotton cloth, cotton thread, and batting

Dimensions

H x W: 84 × 83 in. (213.4 × 210.8 cm)

Place made

Georgia, United States, North and Central America

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification

Textiles and Quilts

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic

African American

Domestic life

Record ID

nmaahc_2013.162.6

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5006fa05e-acd3-4f98-aa10-3188e028476f