Wild Goose Chase
date: label: Date
content: 1825–1850
name: label: Maker
content: Martha Brownlee
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Patchwork quilt top in "Flying Geese" pattern in unbleached white cotton with roller-printed green cotton in a small-scale floral pattern. The white fabrics appear to be flour sacks or other wrapping fabrics, with fragments of printed text.
label: Description
content: W (on front) and YOMING (on back) in gold
label: Description
content: FIN LONG CLO in blue and 36 YARDS on same square
label: Description
content: E TH in blue (forming FINE LONG CLOTH)
label: Description
content: RAFT A in blue, type similar to FINE LONG CLOTH
label: Description
content: G (on front)
place: label: made in
content: USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-50-383
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Object Name
content: Patchwork quilt top
label: Type
content: Patchwork quilt top
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: pieced and sewn patchwork of printed and unprinted plain weave fabrics
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 280 x 230cm (110 1/4 x 90 9/16in.)