1900 - 1925 Antoinette Comstock's Crazy-patched Cushion
date: label: Date made
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label: date made
content: 1900 - 1925
name: label: maker
content: Comstock, Antoinette Cole
notes: label: Description
content: Antoinette Comstock fashioned this cushion using a crazy-patched mat that was once used under vases or lamps. She backed it with red wool fabric, and edged it with tassels of wool yarn with silk floss overlay. Antoinette wrote: “The patchwork was an unfinished oblong and I made it into a small pillow or cushion. The silk cushions had been mats for valuable old vases [from] my own childhood [I] knew in our N.Y. City house.” A second cushion (TE.T15699) is also in the Collection. The two cushions are an example of refashioning a memento from the late 19th century for a different purpose in the early 20th century.
label: Description
content: Antoinette Cole Comstock was born on February 18, 1883 in New York City. Her parents were Emily Cole (1853-1935) and Frederick Harmon Comstock (1853-1939).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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 Antoinette C. Comstock
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T15700
label: accession number
content: 297587
label: catalog number
content: T15700
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cushion, Quilted
label: Object Name
content: cushion, crazy patchwork
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, silk, satin, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton, silk, metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 10 in; 25 cm x 25 cm