1866 - 1900 "Five-pointed Star" Pieced Quilt Top
date: label: date made
content: 1866-1900
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This quilt top was made in the last third of the nineteenth-century and its maker has not been identified. It was part of a donation to the Smithsonian by G. Ruth McHenry in 1961. It may have been in the family of Jane Winter Price who made a “Carpenter’s Wheel” quilt that is also in the Collection.
label: Description
content: Five-pointed stars, twenty in number and made of printed and plain colored cottons, are set off by white circles to create this quilt top. The 15½-inch blocks are framed by an 8-inch-wide dark green border. The quilt was never finished.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: North America
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 Miss G. Ruth McHenry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12699
label: accession number
content: 238478
label: catalog number
content: T12699
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 95 in x 79 in; 242 cm x 201 cm