1900 - 1910 Lena T. Leigh's Hexagon Quilt Top
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1910
name: label: maker
content: Leigh, Lena T.
notes: label: Description
content: Lena T. Leigh, a seamstress in Warrenton, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., assembled this quilt top in the early part of the 20th century. One-inch hexagons of a wide variety of print and solid cottons were pieced into 5½-inch rosettes, each separated by a single row of red cotton hexagons. Perhaps the many examples of period cottons were scraps from her dressmaking business.
label: Description
content: Lena Malorn was born in Fauquier County, Virginia in 1878. In 1900, she married Thomas Leigh, born in England in 1876. She died March 26, 1946 and is buried in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Warrenton
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 Mrs. Polly L. Palmer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T16933
label: accession number
content: 307851
label: catalog number
content: T16933
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
label: Object Name
content: quilt top
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 86 in x 72 in; 218 cm x 183 cm