1870 - 1890 Mary Matthews' Pieced Silk Quilt Fragment
date: label: date made
content: 1870 - 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Pieced quilting segment. Diamond shaped pieces of many silk dress fabrics basted over paper. Pieced in herringbone pattern with overcast stitches (20 - 25 stitches per side). Variety of silks. Made by Mary Matthews as a young woman; according to family lore she complained that making it ruined her eyesight.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
label: Subject
content: Children
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Virginia Capan and S. Sahnow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0246.02
label: accession number
content: 2019.0246
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0246.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt fragment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk; paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 22 in; 51 cm x 56 cm