1800 - 1810 New England Wool Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1810
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This quilt is composed of ten-inch squares of plain-colored woolen fabrics. Many are made of several pieces of fabric stitched together. The lining is initialed “H.D.” and has a very blurry oval stamp, from the U.S. Sanitary Commission. It is quilted with horizontal and vertical lines, 1 inch apart, 6 stitches/inch.
label: Description
content: The quilt was cut down and covered in 1864 by a pieced cotton top made in Amherst, Massachusetts. The top contains many, mainly religious, inscriptions. (TE*T14021.00B) The top was at one time quilted to this older quilt, and the finished product was sent to a Union army hospital during the Civil War.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
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: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14021.00A
label: accession number
content: 272176
label: catalog number
content: T14021A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, wool, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton,silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 89 in x 60 in; 226 cm x 152 cm