Description:
Wholecloth-type, pieced, cotton quilt with three panels of printed and glazed (chintz) cotton in cream, red and green on a dark red background, which has a complex, cylinder (intaglio) printed (done on metal rollars) and rollar (relief) printed (done on wooden rollers) design with three Corinthian-like vertical pillars overlaid with baskets of fruit, alternating with stripes of fruit baskets with flowers and garlands. "Pillar" designs were very popular in printed cottons during the 1820s and 1830s, and were exported in large quantities from Britain to America where they were eagerly adopted and became associated with patriotism. This type of pillar print was considered a middling-level cloth in Britain. A wholecloth chintz quilt such as this one, was therefore more fashionable than a pieced quilt made out of reused calico scraps. The quilt has a four-piece, brown cotton chintz backing; is bound with multi-colored, striped cotton twill tape on all four sides, which is sometimes erroneously called Trenton Tape after Trenton, NJ, but other areas were also making this kind of tape; and is quilted in a grid pattern in brown cotton thread, 7 quilting stitches per inch.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton; polychrome Link to share this object record:
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