1825 - 1850 "LeMoyne Star" Pieced Table Cover
date: label: date made
content: 1825-1850
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This small mat or table cover is made with sixteen 6-inch LeMoyne Star blocks pieced entirely of printed cottons. A 5 ¼-inch printed cotton border frames the pieced stars. There is no filling. It is lined with printed cotton and bound with ¾-inch straight strip of the same printed fabric used for the border, whipped to both front and lining. This pieced square utilizes the popular star motif and quilting to provide a decorative item for the mid-nineteenth century home.
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: Quilts
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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.T17469.000
label: catalog number
content: T17469.000
label: accession number
content: 321804
objectType: label: Object Name
content: table cover, quilted
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 in x 36 in; 94 cm x 91 cm