Description:
Square, printed cotton album quilt that is enitely hand stitched. Using just two fabrics for the face, it is pieced in a pattern sometimes known as the "Chimney Sweep" pattern. The decorative blocks containing the pattern are set on point. They are not sashed in between but are instead separated by blocks (also set on point) of the unpieced white cotton with brown/black figured stripes. Several documented examples of this quilting pattern in surviving Massachusetts quilts were made by children, a fact further suggested by this example, which has five stitches per inch to the quilting stitches. The quilting stitches are done in parallel vertical lines in the solid areas, and in the patterned blocks the quilting stitches are done in a diamond shape. The quilt descended in the donor's family in the West Brattleboro, Vermont, area, with a tag noting "Smith Morton Quilt.".
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton; polychrome Link to share this object record:
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