1881-1882 Clarissa Wright Lord's Silk Patchwork Pieces
date: label: date made
content: 1881-1882
notes: label: Description
content: A collection (photo shows an example) of diamond-shaped patches for a silk quilt. The 2 3/4" silk diamonds are basted over paper templates cut from letters, plain paper, prayer books or church bulletins, advertising cards, and envelopes postmarked Boston and Cambridge, 1881 and 1882. Many of the patches are joined into small sections of various sizes and shapes by overcasting on wrong side. In addition there are 6 unused paper templates and about 3 pounds of silk fabric remnants. One large pieced section and all of the smaller sections show that the ultimate pattern was to be colored 6-pointed stars with intervening black diamonds. There is also one pieced section in which there are no black diamonds and no organized system of color. Other small sections and one larger block are in the Tumbling Blocks pattern. Probably begun by Clarissa Wright Lord for her daughter Sarah who married Robert B. Hall, a minister in Wolfboro, New Hampshire and Cambridgeport, MA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
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: Miss Elizabeth Plimpton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14985
label: catalog number
content: T14985
label: accession number
content: 288867
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Quilt Pieces
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, silk, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.75;