1822 Margret Nolan's Embroidered Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1822
notes: label: Description
content: Below the crewel embroidered basket of flowers in the center panel of this quilt is the cross-stitched inscription: “Margret Nowlan 1822.” The quilt was found in a trunk by renters of a house in Maumee, Ohio. It was noted that Margret Nowlan was a housekeeper whom the owner of the house married after his wife died. After he died, she remarried again, but no names were provided. The significance of the 1822 date is unknown.
label: Description
content: Five borders frame the central motif. The two plain borders are composed of several pieces of white cotton fabric that had been previously used. Roller-printed cottons were used for the other three borders. Linen thread was used for the zigzag quilting pattern on this example of a framed center quilt.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Quilts
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T15089
label: catalog number
content: T15089
label: accession number
content: 287859
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, linen, cotton, wool (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 77 in x 73 in; 196 cm x 185 cm