1840 - 1860 "Nine-patch" Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1840-1860
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Twenty-one different roller printed cottons were used to craft this quilt, a variation of the “Nine-patch” pattern. Seven inch blocks are set diagonally with a 3 ½-inch roller-printed sashing. The side and bottom borders are 25 inches wide. The cotton border fabric is a pillar print with baskets, a popular motif of the period. Two corners are cut out. The lining consists of four lengths of plain-woven white cotton. The filling is cotton. It is quilted 7 stitches per inch. The binding is a 1 inch (finished) straight strip of border fabric seamed to the front, sewn to the lining with running stitches. The assortment of period fabrics contributes to the design of this quilt.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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 The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T17326.000
label: catalog number
content: T17326.000
label: accession number
content: 321804
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 105 in x 124 in; 266.7 cm x 314.96 cm