Red, blue, and cream embroidered bedcover
date: label: Date
content: 1910-1940
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Description
content: A red, blue, and cream pieced bedcover with botanic and geometric embroidered designs. The forty-two (42) blocks are sewn together in six (6) columns and seven (7) rows with alternating colors of red, cream, and blue squares made of a rayon and cotton blend cloth. Each block has a design of floral or leafy sprigs, or geometric shapes, embroidered on it in cream, pale gold, and pale pink silk thread. The blocks are hand-pieced together with decorative embroidery stitched over the seams. Some blocks are made from more than one piece of fabric, with decorative stitching over the seams in the blocks as well. Each block is backed with light weight cotton canvas, with the embroidery sewn through the canvas and the facing fabric. There is no batting between the top and the backing fabrics, with the only inner material being the canvas. The back has three different striped fabrics, one is cream, blue, brown, and yellow; the second is cream, pale blue, and brown; the third is blue and cream. The top and back are seamed right sides together, then turned and a line of machine-stitched cream thread is sewn around approximately 1/2 inch in from the edge. A strip of Velcro is sewn across the top of the reverse. An additional small rectangle of Velcro is sewn at the proper left bottom reverse corner.
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
label: Classification
content: Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.162.3
objectType: label: Type
content: bed coverings
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: rayon and cotton blend cloth, rayon cloth, and silk thread
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 72 × 64 1/2 in. (182.9 × 163.8 cm)