Description:
Pieced, cotton quilt in an Orange Peel pattern laid out in a overall mosaic design with multi-colored, printed, glazed cottons including early chintzs, roller and block prints, pillar prints, and four different weaves in white, and a four-sided border with three matching, but different, glazed printed cottons that include partridges, game birds, and plum and palm trees often seen on other pieced cotton quilts of the period; three-piece, coarse weave cotton backing; and cotton batting. The larger-scale designs seen on many of the printed designs suggests the use of furnishing cottons; white dimity was commonly used for both furnishing and clothing. Some areas of the quilt have been overlayed with a matching crepeline or netting to protect those areas that have degraded as a result of iron oxide dye applied during printing.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton Link to share this object record:
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