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Whole cloth quilt

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1780-1820

GUSN

GUSN-31734

Description

Green ground; quilted entwining vine, flanked on all sides by single undulating feather vine; occasional flowers. Interspaces filled with diagonal quilting.

Details

Descriptive Terms

quilts
wool (textile)
stitching
quilting
weaving
floral patterns
Needlework
Quilt
Wool
Hand Stitched
Quilted
Floral
Twilled
Calamanco
Quilt

Associated Building

Original To Nurse House,

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

85.25 (W) (inches)

Accession Number

1927.2306

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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