1943 - 1944 Patricia Bartak Armato's "Bunny Carriage Quilt"
date: label: date made
content: 1943 - 1944
name: label: maker
content: Bartak, Vera Crosier
notes: label: Description
content: Vera Crosier Bartok, made this child's quilt for her daughter. Twenty-four 5 ½” blocks (6 rows of 4 each) are framed by a 4 ½” border, all pink cotton. Each block has a white sitting rabbit appliqued with a buttonhole stitch in white thread; each bunny has an embroidered eye and other markings in pink thread. Joseph F. Bartak made cardboard bunny patterns for the white standing rabbit and the running rabbit template for the quilting in the border.
label: Description
content: Named the “Bunny Carriage Quilt,” it was made for the donor (Patricia Bartak Armato) before she was born and was used by her for kindergarten nap time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
label: Subject
content: Children
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Patricia Bartak Armato
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0051.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0051
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0051.01
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: 47 in x 31 in; 119 cm x 79 cm