Tumbling Blocks
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Fragment of a quilt top in "Tumbling Blocks" pattern, made from small diamond shapes stitched together to create the illusion of cubes. The woven pieces are in silk stripes, plaids and a few small floral patterns.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dorothy Lynde Wright and A. Elizabeth Wadhams
- 1870–79
- Accession Number
- 1975-39-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Object Name
- Patchwork fragment
- Type
- Patchwork fragment
- Medium
- Medium: silk Technique: pieced and sewn patchwork of woven fabrics Label: Pieced and sewn of woven silk fabrics
- Dimensions
- H x W: 40.5 x 31 cm (15 15/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
- made in
- New York, New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1975-39-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq453ac6a41-ffc3-4631-aba5-edcea1495b9f
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