 | Printed Chintz Wholecloth Quilt
Printed cotton chintz wholecloth quilt. White linen backing. Blue print binding. Colors are blue, rose, yellow, green and brown. Woodblock print. |
 | Pieced and Appliqued Quilt - Peony or Cactus Rose Pattern
Quilt made of alternating pieced and appliqued blocks. Corner blocks have a light ground; borders have a dark ground pieced with white crescents to form swags. Applique motifs are cut from cylinder-printed furnishing chintzes of the 1840-1850 period, mostly florals or leaves, a few are birds. The... |
 | Applique Quilt - Fruit and Flowering Trees
White cotton quilt, with hand-pieced and hand-appliqued sections. Cotton is seamed twice, with two full widths in center and a split width on each side. Hand-quilted in a grid pattern, along with some outline quilting (9 stitches to the inch). Four cherry trees in pots, one in each corner, placed... |
 | Cotton Pieced Quilt in Sunburst Pattern by Mrs. Alexander...
Cotton quilt hand-pieced in a variation of the mariner's compass pattern, (also known as "sunburst" and "Chips and Whetstones"), with circles and points. Blocks are laid out on point. Lattice strips are pieced in the Flying Geese pattern. There are thirteen complete blocks, all approximately 16"... |
 | Pieced Album Quilt
Pieced album quilt. Background is a small yellow dot and fleck in cream. Dark red and white fleck for square background. White centers and contours. Twenty-five squares, with only the two center fabric patterns alike. All prints. Backed with white cotton. Diagonal quilting. |
 | Appliqued Quilt - Lily
Appliqued quilt with white cotton ground. Center section is quilted with ellipses joined together forming quatrefoils; on top of this are appliqued large, red calico, stylized tulips with blue-green cotton stems and leaves; these occur in each corner. Broad border appliqued with same fabrics with... |
 | Wholecloth Chintz Quilt - Pillar Print
Wholecloth chintz quilt in a pillar print. Fabric has a very elaborate design printed in an all over arrangement. Printed in blue on natural cotton; originally indigo blue. Design consists of vertical lines of columns with stylized acanthus-leaf capitals and a plumage bird perched on top of the... |
 | Red and White Applique Quilt - Oak Leaf Pattern
T-shaped quilt with corners cut out. Red chintz with small yellow flowers appliqued onto white cotton ground. Large squares contain a modification of the oak leaf and reel pattern, alternating with all white squares with pinwheels quilted in them. Backed in the same white cotton. |
 | Pieced Quilt - Flying Geese Pattern
Pieced quilt in the "Flying Geese" pattern. Full-length strips of red monotone floral and bird patterned chintzes alternate with narrower strips of calico triangles in the "Flying Geese" pattern. |
 | Pieced Quilt - Irish Chain Pattern
Pieced quilt in the "Irish Chain" pattern. Squares containing smaller squares of a figured printed cotton (green with yellow, blue and black) alternate with plain white squares. White squares are stitched in white with a variety of decorative patterns: flowers, cornucopia, grapes, geometric... |
 | Pieced Quilt
Pieced quilt of small triangles and squares on white ground. Backed with wide strips of pink and white tattersall alternating with narrow strips of white cotton. Small border all around of pink dotted cotton. T-shaped with corners cut out to fit the bed posts. |
 | Pieced and Appliqued Quilt
Pieced and appliqued quilt. Red and green floral chintz with some blue, yellow, and brown appliques on white. Backed with white cotton. Fabrics are block-printed. |
 | Reversible Wholecloth Printed Cotton Quilt
Reversible wholecloth quilt. One side is composed of a brown and green printed cotton, the other side is a blue and brown printed cotton with a finely mottled ground. Simple quilting pattern. Bound in handwoven blue and white striped tape. |
 | Pieced Quilt Top - Pillar Print; Eight-Pointed Star Pattern
Pieced quilt top; the quilt is unfinished. Pieced pattern is composed of alternating squares and eight-pointed stars. Many pieces of an English pillar print are interspersed with pieces of later calicos. The border has strips of early English floral and basket chintz (red ground). |
 | Wholecloth Quilt - Red Pillar Print
Wholecloth quilt of red roller-printed pillar print. Columns of pillars with birds alternate with vertical openwork baskets of flowers. Backed with coarse white cotton; bound with red calico of later date. Quilted with white thread in running stitch in pattern of intersecting semi-circles forming...
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