Description:
Pieced, glazed cotton quilt in the Optical Sawtooth pattern with 12 1/2" square star-patterned blocks alternating with plain blocks in mainly browns, yellows, reds, and a white paisley print and a knife edge. The five-piece backing is cylinder-printed (then glazed) with the "Wild Boar Hunt" scene (1816-1820) in blue and white imitating earlier copperplate-printed fabrics done with an engraved metal roller/cylinder; this design has a fairly short repeat, about 21", which is achievable only with cylinder printing. This subject is also seen on another of Historic Deerfield's quilts, HD F.010B. The quilt has a diamond-grid quitling pattern with white cotton thread, 6 stitches per inch. By the second quarter of the 19th century, American quilts favored the pieced-block format with various star patterns among the most common designs. Even though in this early period, the range of pieced-block pattern was mostly limited to simple star, four-patch, and nine-patch patterns, great variety was achieved by setting blocks straight or on point, by separating them with sashing, or by alternating the pieced block with a plain block, as seen in this example.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton; glaze (coating by location); Wool Link to share this object record:
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