1775 - 1825 Phoebe Pettit's Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1775-1825
name: label: maker
content: Pettit, Phoebe
notes: label: Description
content: Phoebe Pettit’s quilt has an elaborate quilting pattern imposed over a pieced pattern, an unusual technique at this period. Blue threads in the selvedges of the dotted pink fabric indicate that it was manufactured in England between 1774 and 1811. Diagonal quilting provides the background for the complex floral stuffed-work pattern in the center. The irregular scalloped border that cuts into the pieced pattern is a mystery.
label: Description
content: Phoebe Beach was born August 5, 1770, in Albany, N.Y. She married Maj. Macijah Pettit, an officer in the Revolutionary Army, who fought with George Washington. After her death, the Major sent the quilt to her family in upstate New York. It was carefully preserved in the family until its donation in 1994.
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 Ellen E. Rowe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0221.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0221
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0221.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton, linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 93 in x 73 in; 236 cm x 185 cm