Quilt
- Object Name:
- Quilt
- Object ID:
- 1969.078.01
- Place of Origin:
- Weare, NH
- Date:
- 1800-1850
- Description:
- Quilt. Whole-cloth; made with a green plain-woven wool on the top, and a golden yellow plain-woven wool on the back. The green has a slightly shiny surface and a hard creases in each panel that is indicative of professional finishing. The wool fabric of the back has Z-spun yarns woven at an even 22 x 22 ends per inch, and it is 33.75 inches wide, supporting the history that the wool fabric for this quilt was produced in the family. The quilting pattern is a diamond grid pattern, with four lines worked closely together, alternating with three lines spaced farther apart. Quilting thread is dark blue worsted. Front-to-back edge finish on three sides; knife edge on the fourth side. White wool batting.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool - Dimensions:
- W-64.75 L-78.25 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Philbrick Farm in Weare, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Woodbury M. and Josephine M. Philbrook
- Subjects:
- Needlework, Quilting, Sewing, Quilts
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