1812 - 1814 "Pinwheel" Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1812-1814
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: In 1962 a great-great-granddaughter of one of the makers of this quilt donated it to the Museum with the information that it had been made by women in the Adams family. They were said to have made the quilt while the men were away during the War of 1812. The donor’s great-grandfather was Jackson Adams, her great-great uncle, Joshua Adams, and her grandmother, Jane Adams.
label: Description
content: This quilt is made up of 7-inch blocks pieced in the "Pinwheel" pattern, alternating with plain white blocks. Detailed stuffed quilting embellishes the white blocks and border. Ten different quilting patterns are used for the plain blocks, all but one repeated.
label: Description
content: The 8-inch white border has a quilted-and-stuffed feathered vine with small quilted-and-stuffed floral motifs. White cotton fabric was used for the lining, cotton fiber for the filling and stuffing. The pieced blocks and border are quilted at 9 stitches per inch. The “Pinwheel” Quilt, with its contrast of elaborate stuffed quilting and simply pieced blocks, is a fine example of early 19th-century quilting making.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Cecil H. Naylor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T12815
label: accession number
content: 242609
label: catalog number
content: T12815
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton, linen (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 90 in x 82 in; 229 cm x 208 cm