Description:
Pieced, printed cotton quilt. Piecing motifs include 8-pointed star, leaf, T-shape, block, and strip motifs. Descended in the donor's family. This quilt is an example of the fashion for printed cotton, pieced quilt bed coverings popular at the end of the 19th century.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton

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