1790 - 1810 Glazed Wool Whole Cloth Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1790-1810
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Dark blue glazed wool was used for this example of a New England whole cloth quilt. Sometimes labelled a utility quilt, a thick carded wool filling and wool fabrics make it an especially warm bedcover. While it has evidence of many repairs (darning and patches) the wool used for the top still has much of the glazed sheen. Glazing, a process involving the use of a hot press on wool fabric, resulted in a smooth, lustrous fabric surface.
label: Description
content: The quilt center is quilted in a clamshell pattern, framed by a 5 ½-inch band of chevrons and diagonal grid quilting. A 16-inch border is quilted in interlocking circles. At some point a segment (16-inches x 18-inches) was cut from a corner. Wool and linen sewing threads and wool quilting threads are an indicator of its late 18th-early 19th century construction.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13541
label: catalog number
content: T13541
label: accession number
content: 259198
label: catalog number
content: T13541.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, wool, linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filing, wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 86 in x 85 in; 218 cm x 216 cm