Quilt made from brown, blue, tan, and red suiting samples
date: label: Date
content: 20th century
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Description
content: A bedcover made from suiting fabrics in muted tones of gray, brown, blue, tan, and red machine sewn together. The pieces are all of uniform rectangular size, suggesting they are from a salesman's sample or swatch book. The quilt is backed with a gray wool fabric that is turned over at the edges and then sewn around the turned edges of the top. There is no additional border or binding. There is cotton batting between the pieced top and the backing fabric. The top and backing are attached with hand quilting in dark gray thread in a grid pattern on most of the quilt, but a star pattern is quilted on each block of the outermost columns on both sides. A muslin sleeve is hand sewn along the top back for hanging.
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: 2014.156.1
objectType: label: Type
content: quilts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wool, cotton batting, and cotton thread
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 79 1/2 × 64 × 3/8 in. (201.9 × 162.6 × 1 cm)