Object Details
- unknown
- Description (Brief)
- Pieced quilt top made up of Ninety blocks, (10 rows, 9 blocks per row); blocks are composed of small squares (1” approx.) and large and small triangles, 36 pieces in each block/square. Pieces most probably made from cottons produced in the 19th century New England textile mills. Includes many different small-patterned printed dress and shirting cottons, including in colorways associated with mourning prints (grays, purples, and black with white), with browns and blues, and irregular additions of reds and pinks. Maker unknown, but the quilt was passed down in a family in Topeka, Kansas.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Clara Wilbur
- 1880 - 1900
- ID Number
- 2017.0319.01
- accession number
- 2017.0319
- catalog number
- 2017.0319.01
- Object Name
- quilt top
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton (overall material)
- thread, cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 76 in x 66 in; 193 cm x 168 cm
- place made
- United States: Kansas, Topeka
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_1884100
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-c3a6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
