Plain woven red
whole cloth bed quilt backed with pale yellow wool and filled with a thick
wool batting. Estimated to have been made between 1800 and 1840. 74 1/4"
square it is extensively hand quilted with red worsted thread at 4
stitches to the inch. The quilting is of a very different style from most
of the quilts in the collection which incorporate floral designs and
stylized feathers. Ms.
Lynne, the former textiles director of Old Sturbridge Village who specializes
in eighteenth century whole cloth quilts, says that it was probably made by Scots-Irish immigrants, and is based on
a pattern from the British Isles. |
