1880 - 1900 Pieced Quilt Top; Kansas
date: label: date made
content: 1880 - 1900
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pieced quilt top made up of Ninety blocks, (10 rows, 9 blocks per row); blocks are composed of small squares (1” approx.) and large and small triangles, 36 pieces in each block/square. Pieces most probably made from cottons produced in the 19th century New England textile mills. Includes many different small-patterned printed dress and shirting cottons, including in colorways associated with mourning prints (grays, purples, and black with white), with browns and blues, and irregular additions of reds and pinks. Maker unknown, but the quilt was passed down in a family in Topeka, Kansas.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kansas, Topeka
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Clara Wilbur
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0319.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0319
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0319.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt top
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 76 in x 66 in; 193 cm x 168 cm