Object Details
- quilter
- Overall, Dorothy
- Description
- This bassinet quilt with a framed center design is made of high-quality plain blue and white cotton feed sack fabrics. Dorothy Overall of Caldwell, Kansas, a contestant in many sewing events in the 1950s and 1960s, pieced and appliquéd this quilt on a Pfaff sewing machine she had won in a contest. In 1959 she won the National Cotton Bag Sewing Contest that included a vacation trip to Hollywood as part of the prize.
- According to Dorothy, cotton feed sack fabric was light enough for summer, almost as nice as percale and the colors didn’t fade. Cotton sacks for flour, animal feed and other commodities were produced in many colors and prints. Flour and feed companies found that their sales were often influenced by the popularity of their sacks which were used for clothes and household items.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Dorothy Overall
- 1950-1969
- ID Number
- 1992.0102.07
- accession number
- 1992.0102
- catalog number
- 1992.0102.07
- Object Name
- quilt, bassinet
- Object Type
- quilts
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton (overall material)
- thread, cotton (overall material)
- filling, cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 31 in x 27 in; 79 cm x 67 cm
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Sputnik
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- Quilts
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Advertising Devices
- Children
- Feed sack
- Flour Sacks
- Quilting
- Record ID
- nmah_556241
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-be2f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
