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English: Patchwork Quilt Top (USA), 1825–1850   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Patchwork Quilt Top (USA), 1825–1850
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English: Patchwork quilt top in "Flying Geese" pattern in unbleached white cotton with roller-printed green cotton in a small-scale floral pattern. The white fabrics appear to be flour sacks or other wrapping fabrics, with fragments of printed text. W (on front) and YOMING (on back) in gold FIN LONG CLO in blue and 36 YARDS on same square E TH in blue (forming FINE LONG CLOTH) RAFT A in blue, type similar to FINE LONG CLOTH G (on front)
Date 1825–1850
Medium cotton
Dimensions H x W: 280 x 230cm (110 1/4 x 90 9/16in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
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Accession number
1995-50-383
Credit line Bequest of Elinor Merrell
Inscriptions W (on front) and YOMING (on back) in gold FIN LONG CLO in blue and 36 YARDS on same square E TH in blue (forming FINE LONG CLOTH) RAFT A in blue, type similar to FINE LONG CLOTH G (on front)
Notes
  • Type: Patchwork quilt top
  • Inscribed: handwriting in ink on sewn on label "Made by Martha Brownlee born 1 Nov. 1801 Mother of Mary Brownlee Meloy
  • Country: United States
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