1830 - 1880 "Eight-pointed Star" Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1830-1880
label: date made
content: 1860-1880
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This quilt tells two stories. The original quilt consists of pieced vertical strips of block- and roller-printed cottons dating from the 1830-1850s. It was filled, lined with a plain woven brown cotton, and quilted.
label: Description
content: An “Eight-pointed Star” pattern was used for a new top to cover the original, older, worn out quilt. Seven-inch “Star” blocks are set diagonally with 7-inch squares of printed cottons; framed with a 4-inch border of striped cotton. This top consists of roller-printed cottons of geometrics, florals, and stripes. The “new” top was quilted to the “older” quilt, but in a different pattern. Both are quilted at 7 stitches per inch. The edges of the older quilt were cut off and a binding of ¾-inch straight strips of 4 different roller-printed cottons is seamed to the front, whipped to the lining. The quilt is an example of recycling an older quilt by adding a more fashionable new top.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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 The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T17324.000
label: catalog number
content: T17324.000
label: accession number
content: 321804
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: 100 in x 97 in; 254 cm x 246 cm