1866 - 1900 "Five-pointed Star" Pieced Quilt Top
1866 - 1900 "Five-pointed Star" Pieced Quilt Top
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- Description
- This quilt top was made in the last third of the nineteenth-century and its maker has not been identified. It was part of a donation to the Smithsonian by G. Ruth McHenry in 1961. It may have been in the family of Jane Winter Price who made a “Carpenter’s Wheel” quilt that is also in the Collection.
- Five-pointed stars, twenty in number and made of printed and plain colored cottons, are set off by white circles to create this quilt top. The 15½-inch blocks are framed by an 8-inch-wide dark green border. The quilt was never finished.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- quilt
- date made
- 1866-1900
- maker
- unknown
- place made
- North America
- Physical Description
- fabric, cotton (overall material)
- thread, cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 95 in x 79 in; 242 cm x 201 cm
- ID Number
- TE.T12699
- accession number
- 238478
- catalog number
- T12699
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss G. Ruth McHenry
- subject
- Quilting
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- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Textiles
- Domestic Furnishings
- Quilts
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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