1790 - 1810 Pieced Wool Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1790 - 1810
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This pieced wool quilt is actually an example of a cleverly designed recycling or repair of a damaged or worn quilt. The original quilt was made of light green, salmon, dark blue, and gray-green wool, all glazed, but only the dark blue corners retain their glaze. At a later date, a pieced pink and brown wool panel complete with its original filling, lining, and quilting stitches, was added across the top.
label: Description
content: The lining consists of 6 large segments of plain woven wool or wool and linen; one segment is a plain woven horizontal stripe. The quilt is wool filled and quilted. The quilting patterns are different between the top added panel (7 stitches per inch) and the main body of the quilt (8 stitches per inch). Linen thread was mainly used for seaming; wool thread for quilting. The quilt is bound with 1/2" straight strip of green wool whipped to front and lining; the top added panel is bound with green wool twill-woven tape.
label: Description
content: The quilt was part of a larger donation of 18th and 19th century textiles that included coverlets, rugs, printed fabrics, white-on-white embroidered counterpanes, and blankets among other items.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
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: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schwartz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T18241
label: catalog number
content: T18241
label: accession number
content: 1977.0101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, wool, silk, linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 90 in x 85 in; 229 cm x 216 cm