1945 - 1955 Anna Glazer's Modernist Bedspread
date: label: date made
content: 1945-55
name: label: maker
content: Stecher, Anna Glazer
notes: label: Description
content: A bedspread (with matching pillow sham, .2) made of gathered half circles of rayon taffeta, machine sewn in patterns to a cotton ground. The center panel has the circle patterning, the drops on the side are plain taffeta. The center panel is ornamented with the circle applique in an abstract or modernist pattern resembling faces (owl? bull?) with triangles. Colors are burgundy, purple, pink, brown, terra cotta, blue, teal. The edges are finished with pink cotton tape. The long sides are finished with tri-color pink cording. The side panels are slightly gathered, in plain burgundy taffeta. The ends are finished with the pink tape and the sides with the tricolor cording. The center panel alone is backed in blue plain weave cotton. Center panel is 100" L x 51.5" W. The side panels are 87" L x 19.5" W. Made by Anna Glazer, Bronx, NY, in the 1940s-early 1950s. Her daughter remembered it taking her mother a LONG time to complete.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Bronx
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the grandchildren of Anna Glazer: Laurie Sevret, Mitch Hakoun, Martin Stecher, David Stecher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0137.1
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0137.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0137
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bedspread
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rayon; cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: applique; gathered (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 100 in x 91 in; 254 cm x 230 cm