Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 1984.057.20 c
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Date:
- 1820-1850
- Description:
- Cloth fragment, piece of glazed printed cotton quilted with cotton backing and cotton batting, browns, blues, beige, and greens.
Quilt fragment. One of three from the Clyde-Manley-Colby families. Possibly a border fragment. Plain woven cotton chintz, roller printed pattern of intersecting brown fluted stripes with a spotted brown picotage ground in between each square, a second over printed pattern of a 12" x 7" floral bouquets of discharge printed flowers in pigments of brown, gold, green, and blue. Top fabric hand quilted with a plain woven cotton backing and cotton batting. Hand stitched quilting pattern at 10 stitches/inch, border design of three lines followed by a scallop pattern. Backing pieced in five sections, four vertical, one horizontal. One selvedge edge visible on the top fabric. Overall four cut and unfinished edges. - Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- W-76 L-7.5 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Clyde-Manley-Colby families.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Edward Colby and Mrs. Ellmer Bergstrom
- People:
- Colby, Edward W., Bergstrom, Ruby
- Subjects:
- Furnitures, Textile roller printed, Quilts, Borders, Chintz, Bedding, Textile printing, Handwork
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