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Massachusetts Quilt Documentation #2056 |
Olive green whole
cloth bed quilt (Doc. # 2056) Estimated to have been made
between 1790 and 1825. 92" wide by 103" long, with cut out corners, made
from plain woven wool, hand quilted at 6 or 7 stitches per inch. |
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It has a knife edge binding
and thin wool batting backed by three pieces of un-dyed wool. The quilt is
structurally sound and in excellent condition. However, it was damaged and
repaired. Numerous holes were beautifully darned with matching yarn on
both the back and the front. |
| The quilting
pattern is a center of clamshell surrounded on all four sides with a
double border; the inner border being undulating continuous feathers, the
outer border a reverse-curved, stylized floral vine. (See detail
below) |
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