Quilt
- Object Name:
- Quilt
- Object ID:
- 1968.030.01
- Place of Origin:
- Weare, NH
- Date:
- 1800-1830
- Description:
- Quilt. Whole-cloth wool, with a cream-colored worsted top (probably originally glazed, of British manufacture and called "tammy" in the period), with a backing of olive green plain-woven wool. Backing homespun and home-woven; the yarns are Z twist, and the weave is 30 x 20 ends per inch; it is about 29.75" wide selvedge to selvedge. Backing is pieced out with another, darker green wool in one corner. Quilting pattern is of curving vines of stylized flowers surrounded on three sides with an undulating feather vine border. Cream-colored worsted quilting thread, worked seven stitches to the inch. The edge finish is front to back.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool - Dimensions:
- W-87 L-88.5 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Whittle-Prescott trunk. Mary B. Whittle of Weare, NH, married Joseph W. Prescott of Concord, NH. Part of a multi-generation family collection of objects from the Daniel P. Woodbury house in Weare, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Dorcas and Ruth Woodbury
- People:
- Whittle, Mary B. (1833-1917), Prescott, Joseph W. (1824-1888), Woodbury, Ruth A. (1902-1985), Woodbury, Dorcas L. (1907-1980)
- Subjects:
- Needlework, Quilting, Sewing, Quilts
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