1898 Lura Watkin's Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1898
name: label: maker
content: Thomas, Lura B.
notes: label: Description
content: Lura B. Thomas made this quilt for her 10-year-old granddaughter, Lura Woodside, in 1898. It was part of the contents, donated in 1953, of Lura Woodside’s late 19th-century child’s bedroom in Malden, Mass. Furnishings, children’s clothing and playthings were among the items donated. Like the quilt, most of the clothes and doll dresses were also made by Lura Thomas, who had been a professional dressmaker.
label: Description
content: Lura Thomas pieced this quilt of triangles utilizing many different roller-printed and woven checked, plaid, and striped cotton fabrics. Two 2 1/2-inch triangles are joined into a square, and the squares are joined so that the triangles of the same print form a diagonal row. In the center of the quilt “Lura 98” is embroidered in yellow. The quilt has a cotton lining and filling. It is quilted in a chevron pattern at 7 stitches per inch.
label: Description
content: The donor, Lura Woodside, was born in East Boston in 1887, and grew up in Malden, Mass. She married Charles Watkins in 1910. An antiques collector and authority on New England ceramics and glass, she published several books and scholarly articles. She was a founder of the Middleton (Massachusetts) Historical Society, and the Lura Woodside Watkins Historical Museum was named in her honor. She died in 1982. Her quilt, made by her grandmother, represents her lifelong interest in history and the sharing of that interest through her many museum donations.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
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: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Quilts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Lura Woodside Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E393391
label: accession number
content: 197232
label: catalog number
content: E393391
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton, (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pieced (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 86 in; 218 cm