1900 - 1925 Antoinette C. Comstock's Crazy-patched Cushion
date: label: date made
content: 1900 - 1925
name: label: maker
content: Comstock, Antoinette Cole
notes: label: Description
content: Antoinette Comstock fashioned this cushion using a crazy-patched mat that was once used under vases or lamps. She backed it with red wool fabric, and edged it with a fancy cord of silk, chenille and metal. Antoinette wrote: “The patchwork was an unfinished oblong and I made it into a small pillow or cushion. The silk cushions had been mats for valuable old vases [from] my own childhood [I] knew in our N.Y. City house.” A second cushion (TE.T15700) is also in the Collection. The two cushions are an example of refashioning a memento from the late 19th century for a different purpose in the early 20th century.
label: Description
content: Antoinette Cole Comstock was born on February 18, 1883 in New York City. Her parents were Emily Cole (1853-1935) and Frederick Harmon Comstock (1853-1939).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Antoinette C. Comstock
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T15699
label: accession number
content: 297587
label: catalog number
content: T15699
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cushion, Quilted
label: Object Name
content: cushion, crazy patchwork
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk, satin, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, silk, cotton, metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 10 in; 25 cm x 25 cm