Description:
Small, wholecoth, reversible, yellow silk (one one side) and silk and cotton (on the reverse) quilt or possibly a crib quilt quilted over in yellow silk thread in a elaborate design with a center square quilted in a trellis-like pattern and then by series of borders - a rosette border, several rows of straight line quilting, a scrolling border intersperced with hearts, pinwheel, and floral designs, several rows of straight line quilting, and two, half-feather borders; whip-stitched on four sides; and wool or cotton batting. There is evidence showing through on the silk side of the quilting pattern being drawn on. There is a similar silk quilt in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1999-352), which Amelia Peck notes was made by a professional quilter. Silk quilts were not generally intended for everyday use and were not owned by everyday families. The Met's quilt was owned by wealthy Boston family; the textile merchant, William Greenleaf, advertised in "The Boston Weekly News-Letter " of December 1760 that the goods at his shop in Cornhill, Boston, were imported from London and Bristol and that among many other fabrics, he had "callamacoe and silk quilts."
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton; Silk Link to share this object record:
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