1840 - 1860 "Carolina Lily" Album Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1840-1860
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: The “Carolina Lily” pattern, popular in the mid-19th century, was chosen for this example of an album quilt. Roller-printed red and blue-green cotton fabrics make up the pieced and appliquéd pattern. The “Carolina Lily” blocks, quilted in diagonal lines, alternate with plain white blocks each quilted with a different floral design. There is a 1-7/8-inch sawtooth band inside the 7-inch plain white border. The border is quilted with a scrolling feathered vine. The quilting is finely done at 12 stitches/inch.
label: Description
content: Twenty-one of the “Carolina Lily” blocks have a signature along the stem. Six of the surnames are Crumbaker and six are Stoutsenberger, all born in Lovettsville, Virginia. These families are buried in the New Jerusalem Church Cemetery, the Saint James Reformed Cemetery, or the Lovettsville Union Cemetery. It is not known why or for whom the quilt was made, but the many signatures indicate the place where it was most likely made and used.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Lovettsville
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
label: Subject
content: Community
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Textiles
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content: Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Elva L. McKinney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11176
label: accession number
content: 205528
label: catalog number
content: T11176
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: 90 in x 81 in; 229 cm x 206 cm