Object Details
- Description
- Below the crewel embroidered basket of flowers in the center panel of this quilt is the cross-stitched inscription: “Margret Nowlan 1822.” The quilt was found in a trunk by renters of a house in Maumee, Ohio. It was noted that Margret Nowlan was a housekeeper whom the owner of the house married after his wife died. After he died, she remarried again, but no names were provided. The significance of the 1822 date is unknown.
- Five borders frame the central motif. The two plain borders are composed of several pieces of white cotton fabric that had been previously used. Roller-printed cottons were used for the other three borders. Linen thread was used for the zigzag quilting pattern on this example of a framed center quilt.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1822
- ID Number
- TE.T15089
- catalog number
- T15089
- accession number
- 287859
- Object Name
- quilt
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton (overall material)
- thread, linen, cotton, wool (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 77 in x 73 in; 196 cm x 185 cm
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Quilts
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_556476
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-c309-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
