Mariner's Compass
date: label: Date
content: 1845
name: label: Maker
content: Lacy Jones, American
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small pieces of printed cotton in various colors patched to form a star medallion with scalloped outer edge. Each medallion set in white cotton about eighteen inches square. Twenty-five squares, each five by five inches, joined in a grid of strips of printed cotton, predominantly green. The center of each medallion plain white and several have handwritten inscriptions:
label: Description
content: "Our mother / The First to Cherish / The last to desert us. / Wm D. Jones / Frances L. Jones / May 11, 1845."
label: Description
content: "Made by Our Mother / Lacy Jones/ for / I.S. and M.P. Jones / 1845 / in her 64th year."
label: Description
content: "Our Parents / May the Evening of their / lives be as the morning sun / I.P. and M.E. Jones."
place: label: made in
content: Pennsylvania, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1972-28-1
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 plain and roller-printed fabrics Label: pieced and sewn patchwork of plain and roller-printed cotton fabrics
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 255 x 250 cm (100 3/8 x 98 7/16 in.)