Quilt
- Object Name:
- Quilt
- Object ID:
- 1977.008.03
- Place of Origin:
- Connecticut
- Date:
- 1885-1910
- Description:
- Quilt. Redwork; 90 squares (arranged 10 x 9) embroidered with a variety of designs in outline stitch with red cotton embroidery thread on plain muslin. One square near the center is embroidered with a bird and "Good Morning;" below this is a square with an owl and "Good Night,"; another square with a spider in its web is embroidered "Wet or Dry / A friend / Am I." Other squares are embroidered with designs of children (including a boy with a horse in the center block), various flowers, birds, cats, a peacock feather, a fish, and anchors and stars. The seams between blocks are covered with herringbone stitches. The quilt is backed with plain muslin, and also bound with the muslin on the straight grain. Quilted with white cotton thread in two squares inside the edges of each block; 7 stitches to the inch.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton - Dimensions:
- W-73.5 L-83.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Presented to Maria D. (Mrs. W. E. B.) Moore (1835-1917) by the Ladies Society of a small church in Connecticut.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Helen L. Gilbert
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