Album quilt

Item Information

Title:
Album quilt
Description:
White cotton ground; five rows of five pieced blocks entirely of red and white cotton. No two blocks alike. Quilted geometric designs using circles, stars, diamonds, etc. Each block has approximately one inch white border; mitred corners.
Creator:
Sunday School Scholars of Bulfinch
Date:
1852–1853
Format:
Albums/Scrapbooks
Genre:
calico
cotton (textile)
fringe
stitching (generic process)
piecing (needleworking)
quilting
printing (process)
rolling up
textiles (visual works)
album quilts
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
albums (books)
religions (belief systems, cultures)
Cotton
Calico
Quilted
Hand Stitched
Pieced
Transfer Printed
Fringe
Religion
Album
Unidentified Textile
Places:
Massachusetts
Extent:
90 in. x 89 in. (W x L)
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/30865
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Mrs. George S. Selfridge
Accession #:
1926.206
Identifier:
30865