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Title |
Battle of Tippecanoe |
Catalog Number |
1937.1.1 |
Artist |
Godman, Mary Elizabeth, 1829-1914 |
Date |
1845 |
Object Name |
Quilt, Bed |
Material |
Cotton |
Dimensions |
H-87 W-71 inches |
Description |
Cotton patchwork quilt with alternating blocks of white and green with white borders. Very tiny triangular patches in blocks. Closely quilted in plumes and straight lines. The pattern is known as Battle of Tippecanoe. Quilt colors include: green, pink, white, and brown. Attached card reads: "Quilt made over 100 years ago by ancestor of and given by Miss Amanda Dean of Glen Dean, KY." Quilt made of 12 10" squares made of plain white cotton. Around each square are 10 1" half square triangles in green and white with a pink .5" triangle in each corner. At each corner of the block is a green diamond shape with curved edges, surrounded by a curved white strip of fabric. Each of these diamond shapes has brown and pink triangles forming a star shape around the diamond. Between each block is a 3.25" white square set on point that is surrounded by green .5" triangles. Along the edges of the quilt are 10 by 5" rectangles of white cotton, surrounded by 1" green half square triangles. The quilt has three borders, each is 2" wide with a green border followed by a white border followed by a green border forming the edge of the quilt. The quilt back is a white cotton fabric and the quilt is finished with a white cotton binding tape. The white squares are hand quilted with plumes and diagonal lines. The half square triangles are quilted in a triangular shape and the curved diamonds have quilted parallel lines. The white blocks are quilted with white cotton thread, and the rest of the areas are quilted in a blue cotton thread. There are 9 quilting stitches per inch. The green borders have diagonal parallel lines of quilting. The white border has a stem with two leaves quilted throughout. |
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