1860 - 1880 "Tumbling Blocks" Child's Quilt
date: label: Date made
content: 1860-1880
name: label: quilter
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: The maker of this child's quilt remains unknown. Well worn, it is pieced in the Tumbling Blocks pattern, also referred to as Cubework or Boxes. The placement of the four inch diamond shaped pieces cut from various roller-printed cottons creates an example of an optical illusion in textiles. The lining is a roller-printed check cotton in red and brown. The quilt was completed with outline quilting, six stitches /inch, and bound with a strip of printed cotton folded over the edge and machine-stitched. The quilt was donated to the Museum in 1968 by Mrs. Dorothy Walkley Faul. She provided the information that the quilt had been in the Walkley family who had settled in Southington, Connecticut, about 1630 and that the quilt was probably made in the 1860s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Children
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 Mrs. Dorothy W. Faul
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14533
label: catalog number
content: T14533
label: accession number
content: 277119
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt, crib
label: Object Type
content: quilts
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 47 in x 41 in; 119 cm x 103 cm