1870 - 1880 Martha Jane Taylor's Parlor Throw
date: label: Date made
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label: Date made
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label: date made
content: 1870 - 1880
name: label: maker
content: Taylor, Martha Jane
notes: label: Description
content: Martha Jane Taylor employed her needlework skills to create this chevron patterned parlor throw. According to the donors, her granddaughters, she died in 1882 after a long illness; possibly making this throw was a distraction for her as her health declined.
label: Description
content: The 4-inch vertical bands made of strips of silk pieced in a chevron pattern are separated by 1 ½-inch silk ribbons. A 4-inch crazy-patched border with some embroidery frames the center. The lining consists of 30 square and rectangular fragments of a purple/black/white plaid silk fabric. The filling is cotton with an inner lining of cotton cloth. It is tied with purple and yellow silk.
label: Description
content: Martha Jane Nicar was born in 1827 or 1828 in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1845 she married Carlo Reed Taylor (1821-1897) in Mishawaka, Indiana. Carlo R. Taylor was born in Lewiston, N.Y., but traveled and worked in many parts of the country. During the Civil War, according to the family, he was employed by the Confederate Army, possibly manufacturing all the printer’s ink for the Confederacy during that time. He was involved in businesses in Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, among other places. They had five children. Martha died in South Bend, Indiana in 1882.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, South Bend
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: Misses Alice and Martha Taylor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12173
label: accession number
content: 232472
label: catalog number
content: T12173
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Quilt
label: Object Name
content: Throw
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk, velvet, ribbon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, silk, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 57 in x 49 in; 145 cm x 124 cm