1890 - 1900 Bates Family Silk Parlor Throw
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1900
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Composed of eighty-one blocks, this parlor throw is an example of contained crazy-patchwork popular in the late 19th century. Each block has a cross-shape center outfined by black silk piecing. The cross shapes are pieced from an assortment of multicolored silks.
label: Description
content: The piecing is secured with a variety of fancy stitches; buttonhole, detached chain, herringbone, feather, straight, and couching. A machine-quilted (commercially available) silk lining, in a scrolling vine pattern, provides weight and depth to the parlor throw. The precisely stitched parlor throw is completed by a 5 ¼-inch green velvet border edged with a heavy green braid.
label: Description
content: The quilt was in the Bates family of New Haven, Conn., and was donated by a family member.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Gift of Miss Margaret Stecker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T16117
label: accession number
content: 297492
label: catalog number
content: T16117
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
label: Object Name
content: Throw
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk, satin, velvet, ribbon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, silk (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 67 in x 67 in; 169 cm x 169 cm