1880 - 1890 Eva Shaw's Crazy-patch Piano Cover
date: label: date made
content: 1880-1890
name: label: maker
content: Shaw, Eva Gibbs
notes: label: Description
content: This crazy-patch piano cover or runner was constructed of two rows of 12 ½-inch blocks pieced of silks, satins, velvet, and ribbon. The patches were embellished with embroidered, painted, and beadwork motifs. Among the decorations are painted flowers, a painted frog, printed and painted "Kate Greenaway" figures, and silk ribbon flowers. The blocks are constructed on muslin squares and held in place by embroidered fancy stitches. The lining is a loose-weave cotton, roller-printed with a floral and scroll design. The embroidered initials “E.S.” probably refer to Eva Gibbs Shaw, who made the piano cover.
label: Description
content: Eva Gibbs was born in Iowa in 1859. She married William Shaw in 1885. They had two daughters and lived in Washington, D.C.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Quilts
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Adelaide S. Earle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0092.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0092
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0092.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
label: Object Name
content: piano cover
label: Object Name
content: crazy patchwork
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk, satin, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, silk, cotton, chenille, metallic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 92 in x 30 in; 232 cm x 76 cm