1850 - 1875 Mary Sterrett Gist's "Feathered Star" Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1875
name: label: maker
content: Gist, Mary Sterrett
notes: label: Description
content: Mary Sterrett Gist created this quilt using “Feathered Star” blocks. Thirty-six 12 ½-inch squares pieced of printed cottons are set with plain white squares. A 2-inch appliqued saw tooth border completes the design. The pieced blocks are quilted in parallel diagonal lines, the small white squares in a diagonal grid, and the large white squares with a leafy branch motif. Finely quilted at 10 stitches per inch.
label: Description
content: Mary Sterrett Gist was born on September 1, 1808, daughter of Independent Gist and Rachel Gist. Her life was spent near Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. She died on January 22, 1890. “A venerable and highly esteemed member of the distinguished Gist Family . . . . a lady of fine literary ability and [who] had lived all her life in the house where she died.” (<I> Daily News </I>, Frederick, Maryland, January 24, 1890.) According to the family she was a descendant of General Mordecai Gist of Maryland who fought in the Revolutionary War and died in 1792.
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: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. W. A. Pickens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12705
label: accession number
content: 239138
label: catalog number
content: T12705
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: 91 in x 90 in; 231 cm x 229 cm