1840 - 1860 "LeMoyne Star" Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1840-1860
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Found in a trunk in Massachusetts, on either the MacGuire or Fowler homestead, this quilt is composed of 11-inch “LeMoyne Star” pattern blocks. The 19 pieced blocks and one Nine-Patch block are set diagonally with 11-inch squares of glazed printed cotton. Attached to the sides and bottom of the quilt are gathered flounces 25 ¼ inches long (included in overall measurements) made of the same glazed roller-printed cotton used for the plain squares.
label: Description
content: The fabrics are plain-woven roller-printed cottons: floral, plaid, checked, striped, and dotted. Six patches are made of bolt-ends with large black stamped numbers and letters. The lining is composed of two lengths of plain-woven cream colored cotton. Cotton was used for the filling, and it is quilted 7 stitches per inch. No separate binding except at corner cutouts where a bias strip of printed cotton binds the inside curve. Front and lining are turned in and stitched, the flounces are sewn to the front layer.
label: Description
content: The star motif was and is a popular quilting design. This mid-nineteenth century quilt is an example of the traditional “LeMoyne Star” pattern and bed furnishing design.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
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.T17342.000
label: catalog number
content: T17342.000
label: accession number
content: 321804
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: 85 in x 67 in; 216 cm x 170 cm