Redfaced brown patchwork quilt. The diamond shaped patches are an assortment of multi-colored fabrics sewn together. Some patches have polka-dots, stripes or plaids. Other patches have small flowers or parts of a larger design. The back of the quilt is red.
quilts
silk (textile)
velvet (fabric weave)
satin
Quilt
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P061
Probably Duncan, Caroline, 1800-1893 (Sewer (textile worker))
2/16 x 47 11/16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.484
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