1800 - 1825 "Seaweed" Print Pieced Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1825
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: The center of this quilt is pieced with two lengths of a "seaweed” motif roller-printed cotton, edged on either side by a 3 ¼-inch bias strip of the same fabric. Small “seaweed” and “coral” patterns were popular throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, perhaps related to the fashion for “pressing seaweed” as a keepsake of a visit to the seaside. A second roller-printed cotton is used for the 19-inch side and bottom borders, and a roller-printed stripe is used for the 5 ½-inch top border. The lining is pieced with various sizes of plain-woven ivory cotton. Quilted 7 stitches per inch. No separate binding, the front and lining are turned in and sewn with running stitch. Mainly two contrasting printed cottons were effectively used for this example of early 19th century quilting.
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: Quilts
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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.T17337.000
label: catalog number
content: T17337.000
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: 99 in x 91 in; 251 cm x 231 cm