1840 - 1860 "LeMoyne Star" Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1840-1860
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: The pieces that are used to make the 71 “LeMoyne Star” blocks on this quilt create a useful record. They represent an assortment of fabrics used for ordinary mid-19th century clothes. Brown, tan, grey, and rust-colored fabrics, most twill-woven cotton/wool, were used to piece the blocks. These alternate with 6 ½-inch squares of brown and grey striped cotton/wool fabric. The quilt is lined with a plain-weave, cotton warp/wool weft fabric. Brown carded wool serves as the filling. The quilting pattern consists of parallel diagonal lines 1 ½-inch apart, quilted at 3-4 stitches per inch.
label: Description
content: The machine- and hand-woven textile examples might not otherwise have been preserved if not used to craft this quilt.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: North Carolina
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: 1979.0167.01
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0167.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton/wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 82 in x 73 in; 209 cm x 185 cm