Wool quilt with hand embroidered details
date: label: Date
content: 20th century
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Description
content: Pieced quilt made primarily from wool clothing fabrics with some synthetics or blends mixed in. The center of the quilt consists of regularly sized rectangles in various colored muted tones of wool clothing fabrics. On one outer side irregular pieces are sewn together like a crazy quilt. On the other side is a large piece of dark blue woven stripe fabric, with some smaller rectangular blocks in multiple colors and fabrics on either side. The other two edges are formed from long rectangular pieces of fabric as thinner borders. The seams of the blocks in the center and the wide borders have hand embroidered detail in cream and red thread. The quilt is backed with a blue, white, and pink woven stripe fabric. There is no binding, with the front and back turned under and seamed. There are sections on the edges of the wider borders where the fabrics on the top appear to be large patches to repair, with the edges of them turned over to the back as the binding. A thick layer of batting is placed between the top and back, which are attached with cream thread ties.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Domestic life
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Textiles and Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.215.8
objectType: label: Type
content: quilts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wool, cotton, batting, and thread
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 76 × 69 1/2 × 3/4 in. (193 × 176.5 × 1.9 cm)