Object Details
- Caption
- This double-faced hourglass quilt, also known as a quarter-square triangle quilt, offers a colorful lesson in geometry. To construct each of the hand-sewn quilt’s eight-eight square blocks, four smaller squares of fabric are folded in half lengthwise to form isosceles triangles. The triangles are then stitched on the long edges into a square with the points meeting in the center. Sewn together, the square blocks create quilt that looks the same on both sides. The double-faced quilt’s fabrics feature a variety of colors, textures, and patterns, including solids, stripes, and plaids in heavyweight cottons, polyesters, and cotton-polyester blends. It is one of four quilts from the Sherry Sherrod DuPree Collection (acma-06-041), which documents the history of African American Holiness and Pentecostal movements (2003.0018.0002, 2003.0018.0003, 2003.0018.0004).
- Cite As
- Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Dupree Collection of the African American Holiness and Pentecostal Movements
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2003.0018.0005
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- quilt
- Medium
- cotton, polyester, batting
- Dimensions
- 61 1/4 × 43 1/4 in. (155.6 × 109.9 cm)
- See more items in
- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Record ID
- acm_2003.0018.0005
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dl88ed67cfd-5a01-4cc7-9cb0-fdffdce932f1
