1835 - 1850 Mary Winfield's "Nine-patch" Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1835-1850
name: label: maker
content: Winfield, Mary
notes: label: Description
content: Mary Winfield crafted this small quilt for her granddaughter, Julia A. Poole, of Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Possibly it was intended as a doll quilt. The quilt is composed of 3-inch blocks, some pieced in the “Nine-patch” pattern, some plain. Each plain block is quilted with a single flower or bird.
label: Description
content: Mary W. Tucker was born about 1764 in Virginia. She married William Winfield III (1762-1837) on January 6th in either 1783 or 1787. She made another small quilt, also in the Collection, for the same granddaughter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
label: Subject
content: Children
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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: Mrs. Fannie Hamilton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T02139.00A
label: accession number
content: 57609
label: catalog number
content: T02139A
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: 13 in x 13 in; 33 cm x 33 cm