Quilt
- Object Name:
- Quilt
- Creator:
- Unidentified
- Date:
- 1840-1860
- Dimensions:
- W-76 L-95 inches
Border: 3.5" - Description:
- This is a 1850s baby quilt. There are small diamonds of fourteen different plain, printed or checked cottons in blues, browns, greens, pinks and off whites. The overall feeling is brown. The colors fan out from the center pink star froming ever-increasing octagons. The quilt is hand pieced , direct set - Starburst pattern with corner triangles 1/2 of a 10" square with 9 patch star with 31/8" square in center.
The border is made up of brown and white striped, printed calico.
The backing is made of long strips (54") wide of off white cotton alternating with material similar to the border pieces . The diamonds are individually quilted which holds the backing and pieced front together.
Binding is hand applied - the top folded over to back 1/2" brown and white stripe straight with mitered corners. Border quilted in diagonal design.
Stitches in quilt are uneven; white cotton thread was used. Batting is thin cotton. - Collection Name:
- Textile
- Item Number:
- 1979.19.01
- Accession Number:
- 1979.19.06
- Type of Material:
- Objects
- Copyright Statement:
- For information regarding copyright, permissions, and reproductions contact the New London Historical Society
- Participating Organization:
- New London Historical Society
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