Quilt
- Object Name:
- Quilt
- Object ID:
- 1990.500
- Date:
- 1850-1886
- Description:
- Quilt. Friendship. Made of blocks pieced in the Album Patch pattern, which looks like an X, with a white square in the middle, a place for the name, inscribed in ink. The blocks, gathered in the mid-19th century, are all hand-pieced, but the sashing and bound edge finish are machine-stitched, which also indicates completion of the friendship quilt, c. 1886. The calicoes are mostly the typical brown and double pinks of the mid-19th century. The sashing is plain white cotton. The backing is a brown mill print from 1850-1875; it is also used for the straight-grain applied edge binding. The batting is unevenly distributed, but generally thin. Quilting is in simple diagonal lines at about five stitches to the inch.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- W-75 L-64 inches
- Provenance:
- Donated by Hattie Gibbs Brown.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Hattie Gibbs Brown
- People:
- Brown, Hattie G. (1872-1910)
- Subjects:
- Needlework, Quilting, Sewing, Quilts
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