All cotton quilt of large blocks, each with white ground and floral applique done with "broderie Perse" technique. Wreath designs alternate with clustered floral sprays. Blocks have sashing and border using a green floral print in a Maryland Stairstep design. Wide outer border of white ground is filled with same floral applique technique, but arranged in an undulating line. A final narrow outer border uses the same green Maryland Stairstep design. White cotton backing is brought forward and hand stitched to make binding.
Has a wide range of hand quilting done with white thread in center blocks: wreaths, various flowers, potted plants, leaves, lattice, parallel diagonals and a grid. Outer white border is filled with a pattern of tiny fans.
Tradition states quilt was started in 1795 and took two generations to finish, circa 1830.
Provenance
File notes "Presented by Mr. Harry Hostetter for Mrs. A.K. Hostetter" (Ida L. Kegerreis Hostetter)
Areas of bad fading,especially along border, a variety of stains including large liquid stains, soiling, white paint drips, and various holes and deteriorated fabric. Appliqued chintz in some center blocks is badly deteriorated with strong losses, especially 3 of the blocks and at one end.
Unfinished hexagonal pieced quilt top. 7 large hexagons (15.5-inch sides) with star-shaped patterns of small 1.25-inch-sided hexagons, 12 per side. One large hexagon is loose/ not yet sewn into the larger piece. Small hexagons were stitched around heavy paper forms cut from advertisements/ "Lancaster" is printed on one.All outer-edge small hexagons still have the paper forms in them. Central section shows was. Fascinating variety of cotton fabrics, plain & prints; shirtings. Dating from different periods, maybe late 1800's to late 1920's.
Year Range From
1890
Year Range To
1920
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
Island 4
Storage Cabinet
Unit 19
Storage Shelf
Shelf 4
Storage Container
Box 0047
Object Name
Quilt
Length (cm)
193.04
Length (ft)
6.3333333333
Length (in)
76
Width (cm)
172.72
Width (ft)
5.6666666667
Width (in)
68
Dimension Details
These measurements are not precise.
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2023-11-27
Condition Notes
Unfinished; cardboard/heavy paper patterns are still in outer edge hexagons.
Unfinished pieces 8-pointed star quilt top. Variety of brightly-colored cotton prints form 8-pointed stars with white muslin square centers. Machine-peiced, 5 blocks across and 7 blocks along lenght. Each star block is roughly 8 x 8 inches. A 2.5-inch border of a pink prints is sewn as the outer edge.
Framed Center white cotton quilt has pieced work as well as appliqued cut-out images from an English block-printed cotton chintz that dates from the 1780s. This applique technique (here using colorful birds and branches) is known as "broderie perse" or Persian embroidery.
Center medallion has two birds of prey and flowering branches. Inner border is defined by sawtooth applique of chintz. Outer border continues with broderie perse applique of flowering branches and smaller exotic birds resembling peacocks with long trailing tails.
Quilting patterns: undulating feather in outside border with filled-in areas of waffle and vine-and-berry. Center has vine-and-berry with waffle. Inner border has a rope pattern.
Quilt has white cotton back and cotton batting.
Possibly Northeastern Lancaster County.
Provenance
Quilt was purchased by the Dykes in East or West Cocalico Twp.
Very good overall. Light brown liquid stains, especially in right center area. sprinking of small light brown stains overall.
Object ID
P.77.35.1
Notes
See "Quilts in America" by P. & B. Orlofsky (cover and p.225) for a c. 1803 quilt with this appliqued print. Label states this chintz print was "cut out of a 1780s English block-printed chintz of the type favored in England and France at that time and very popular in American quilts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries."
See also Weissman and Lavitt, "Labors of Love", p. 42.
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of the James Hale Steinman Foundation, Heritage Center Collection
Lancaster Amish quilt is a Diamond in the Square patern, c. 1910. Herr writes: "The use of dark colors in similar tones suggests that this quilt was made in early 20th c."
Top: Plain- and twill-weave wool. Corners of inner border are pieced, and one of the four is comprised of two joined pieces. Blue binding.
Back: Black & white plain-weave cotton chambray.
Quilting: Interwoven feathers, each frond has a tulip at its end. Inner border has pumpkin seed flowers within a diamond pattern. At each corner is a 6-pointed star; all are double lined except on. Triangles are waffle quilted. Center diamond has a large star and 6 small stars within a feather wreath. Corners have a pattern of intersecting circles.
Provenance
Esprit purchased from the Holsteins for $9,000 on 6-12-80.
Lancaster Amish quilt, Diamond in the Square pattern w/ 9-patch variation. Early example of this rare 9-patch variation; one of the smallest quilts in this collection; uses rare double waffle/lattice quilting.
Top: plain- and twill weave wools. (9-patch pattern within center diamond has pieced blocks of gray, mauve, orange, purple, green and brown interspersed with solid purple blocks. Green diamonds, gray inner border and red outer border (woven of red wool and white silk, called henrietta cloth).
Back is pieced: two sections of plain-weave cotton chambray, one blue and white and one black and white.
Binding is faded into gray. Batting is wool.
Quilting: crosshatch in 9-patches, 8-petal flowers in blue blocks, rare (for Lancaster Amish) lattice (double waffle) in triangles, pumpkin seeds in inner border and feather scrolls in wide outer border.
Provenance
Purchased Nov. 12, 1984 by Esprit from Bettie Mintz of All of Us American Folk Art, Bethesda, MD. for $7,500.
Strong fading overall with significant dark liquid stains (mostly at one side). Binding worn with small areas of fraying, including three small sections (3/4", 2" and 4") repaired & protected by dark fabric sewn over them. Significant deterioration/thinning and breaking in green triangles and some holes. Red outer border has minor breaking as well. Condition report/sketch done by volunteer Aug. 2010. Note that many of small gray and two of the mauve and orange blocks in the Nine Patch unit are pieced from even smaller sections. Scraps used?
Lancaster Amish quilt, Diamond in the Square, Sunshine & Shadow variation, c. 1910. Machine assembled, hand-quilted with black thread, now brown.
Top: plain- and twill-weave and sateen wool and cotton. Multi-colored blocks including black. Outer border of deep cranberry. Patches reverse typical arrangement; in this example, teh solid field is the diamond and the surrounding triangles or "square" include the Sunshine and Shadow pattern. Light red binding is machine stitched to front, turned and whip-stitched to back. No inner border and no corner blocks.
Back: Three machine-joined widths of a tiny cotton check of brown printed on a cream ground. This type of cotton fabric was popular with Lancaster Amish quilters.
Quilting: Unusal motifs at centerfield and outer border. Center has a double-line 8-point star and pumpkin seeds, followed by a feather circle. Tiny baskets in each corner. Grid quilting on small squares. Outer border has corner lyre pattern as well as the accompanying fat feather or fern fronds around edges is unusual and suggests an early 20th c. date. Also the choice of cotton for the top is not common for this tiime.
Provenance
Esprit purchased from America Hurrah for $900 in April 1976, making it one of Tompkins' earliest quilt acquisitions. It was hung in the executive office's lobby at Esprit Corp.
Some fading to outer border; extreme fading to front side of binding. Black quilting thread is now brown at front. Backing has been torn at the gaps between 2"strips of velcro that had been sewn directly onto quilt.
Object ID
P.02.51.26
Notes
Published in "A Gallery of Amish Quilts", p. 65.
POSSIBLE ATTRIBUTION:
Fieldwork: Rachel Pellman visited Sadie Esh (Mrs. Elmer D.) of Harvest Drive in Ronks on 2-27-04. Sadie identified plate 28 in Esprit book as her quilt that Mary Stoltzfus Lapp had made for her when she (Sadie) was 15 or 16 yrs. old (in 1935 or 36). Sadie was born 1920. As a widow, she sold the quilt in the 1970s to finance a new stove, not recalling to whom or for how much. Pellman made a follow-up visit Dec. 1, 2004 with Sadie L. (Beiler) Esh, #2482 in Fisher book. Sadie believes "Grossmommy" Mary S. Lapp #3219, 1875-1955 made this quilt.
Sunshine and Shadow quilt, circa 1910. Symmetrical & square; machined assembled. Unusual segmented inner borders; there is a small body of S & S quilts with these borders, likely made by family members or close friends. See "A Gallery of Amish Quilts" p. 53. The use of fern quilting & hernrietta cloth (2-tone silk and wool) suggest early 20th c.
Top consists of plain-weaves, twill weaves and henrietta wool and silk. The back is a black and white printed polka dot plain-weave cotton.
Center field is multicolored 1 1/2-inch squares. Largely symmetrical except for a scattering of dark blue squares. Quilted across the diagonal of small blocks. Many of these tiny blocks have pleats/tucks along one edge (problem with fitting?). Unusual addition of one dark purple square near center.
Inner border (4 1/2" wide) is red with green corner blocks. Grouping of segments (either 5, 6 or 7) at center of each inner border. Cable quilting is unusual for use in narrow inner borders. Corners have pumpkin seeds with parallel lines running diagonally at corners.
Outer border (10 1/2" wide) is a gray-blue with orange corner blocks. Quilted with a fern motif and scallops along inner edge. Corner blocks have stylized 3-bloomed tulips.
Binding is dark green, 1 3/4" wide and in poor condition (sides splitting, thin and fragile).
Maker quilted the intitials "JE" in large block letters at center of one outer border. "JE" is likely Esh or Ebersol(e).
Provenance
Esprit purchased from America Hurrah in Nov 1989 for $14.500.
Published in Bishop & Safanda's "A Gallery of Amish Quilts", 1976, p. 53, at which time it was owned by Phyllis Haders. It had been found in Indiana.
Overall fading, multiple liquid stains esp. within outer border. Binding deteriorated: thin, fragile & splitting throughout & fractured at corners. Expertly overlaid by conservator Linnea Davis in 1990 with a green silk crepeline to prevent further damage and then supported by a cotton backing/foundation due to the attachment of the velcro strip. Linnea Davis condition report.
Amish quilt, Bars pattern - Segmented Variation. Very unusual departure from other Lancaster Amish quilts; more suggestive of Midwest Amish. Placement of colored segments is also unlike normal orderliness & balance of Lancaster Amish. Bordered on only three sides and has no inner border. The placement of the segments does not add to the orderliness and balance one is used to seeing in Lancaster Co. Amish quilts. Rectangular machine joined quilt is finely quilted with black cotton thread.
Top: Twill-weave wools. Centerfield has bars of mixed colors and burgundy bars. Outer border of 3 sides is burgundy. Once-turquoise binding of 1" width is now silver gray.
Back: Symmetrically pieced light brown, golden yellow and light brick plain-weave cotton of 5 panels, machine joined. Relates to the front of the quilt.
Quilting: Outer border has large scale 4-heart motif, triangular groupings of clam shells and one isolated feather strip in each bottom corner. Center is waffle quilted. All quiltiing is larger scale than usual.
Provenance
Esprit purchased from America Hurrah, N.Y.C. (according to photocopy of exhibit catalog) for $1,350 in June 1976.
Binding extremely faded from original blue, w/ soil and several dark liquid stains. The eight seams in pieced red border quite visible due to use of white thread. Light colored thread used to mend two small areas in red left outer border, above middle and another small area within the red left inner bar near bottom.
Amish quilt, Double Ninepatch pattern, c. 1910. Dated early due to dark colors and traditional quilting designs. Unusual large scale centerfield.
Top: Plain-weave, twill-weave wool and henrietta cloth (silk & wool). A nesting of 9-patch designs on four levels like matryoshka dolls. Multi-color pieced blocks, rust inner border, purple blocks and green outer border. Binding is purple.
Back: Black & white geometric pattern-woven cotton.
Quilting: Crosshatch in small squares of ninepatch in center, while the alternate dark blocks have 6-point stars. The 4 large alternate squares have feather wreaths. Cable in inner border with feather flower in corners. Outer border has a robust, tightly curving scroll feather motif.
Provenance
Esprit purchased from America Hurrah of NYC on 6-19-89 for $16.000.
Lancaster Amish quilt, Double 9-Patch pattern, machine pieced, "AE" is cross-stitched in pale green perle cotton at back corner. Quilt was made for Annie Esh before her 1919 marriage to John Stoltzfus. Maker was likely her mother.
Top: plain-weave, twill-weave, and crepe wool. Centerfield has 12 double 9-patch blocks 10" x 10" set on point, alternating with dark purple fill blocks. A lighter purple is used for most of the side triangles. The 9-patch blocks are 3" x 3" made of opposing colors and contrast will with the red fill blocks. Inner border 3 3/4" wide has blue diamonds contrasting with dark blue side triangles. Corner blocks are blue-gray. Outer border of red wool challis is 12 1/2" wide except for top which is only 5 1/2" wide. Red is made of joined sections.
Back: black-and-green printed cotton percale. Batting is a high loft wool.
Binding 1" wide seems to have been replaced -- machine stitched to front and whip stitched to back by hand. Machine stitching from the original binding still remains.
Quilting hand done in black thread: Centerfield has feather wreaths in purple fill blocks and partial wreaths in side triangles. 9-patch blocks are quilted perpendicular to the quilt in lines 3/4" apart. Inner border diamonds have pumpkin seed flowers of 4 petals while the corner blocks have flowers of 8 petals. Triangles have chevrons. Three sides of outer border have elongated graceful scrolling feathers, with double rosettes added at center fold on both sides. Quilted feather is adjusted for the upper narrow border by having an undulating single line.
Provenance
Purchased by Esprit 4/1981 from Marilyn Kowaleski of Wernersville, PA for $5,000.
Seller wrote on 4/16/81 to Doug Tompkins that Annie Esh was 81 yrs. old, had sold all her belongings two weeks ago & moved in with her daughter. (Annie Esh, wife of John Stoltzfus, not found in Fisher Book).
On May 223, 1990, Conservator Linnea Davis notes: "Washed out appearance w/ surface gradations of light damage. Binding faded to gray, quilting thread also faded. Near center is an open seam between light purple & light turquoise small squares. Along bottom side of outer border is a 3/8" pencil or pen mark. Binding has a 1 1/2"-long streak of white at bottom front. Back has a brown streak of soil about 3/4" wide running full length of quilt."
Baskets quilt, all cotton, has 16 pieced blocks on point alternating with white blocks. Pieced blocks center a basket of a yellow foliate print and a red print of small squares, all on a ground of the same red print. The yellow basket handle is appliqued. The 5"-wide outer border, the back, and the applied binding, are white cotton. Cotton batting.
Hand-stitched quilting designs, pencil lines still visible. The basket blocks have 2 strings of diamonds, a triangle, 3 hearts and a fleur-de-lis. Alternate white blocks have a large flower at center and a 3-leaf motif in each corner. Perimeter open triangles have a diamond grid. Border has running cable.
Provenance
Quilt was made by Elenora Brackbill, donor's aunt, who lived and died in Strasburg area. Donor believes the quilt was made for her own birth (Oct. 16, 1913). Elenora was a single woman and a "practical" nurse who assisted with births, nursing adult patients and cleaning. Elenora first lived in one half of the house on the family farm with her single sister Mary. The family farm was located near the Strasburg Mennonite cemetery just west of Strasburg.
Elenora and Mary then moved to 209 W. Main St. in Strasburg when donor was in her 20s (i.e., 1930s). Elenora died at age 95 and is buried in Strasburg Mennonite cemetery. Donor recalls the family all attending St. Michael's Lutheran Church on E. Main St. They were not Mennonite and did not dress plain. Maker's parents were Amos Brackbill (1840-1913) and Hannah Catherine Bair Brackbill (1849-1922).
Quilt was never used according to donor, however there are minor stains and soiling at various points on front and back, including some acid burn where likely exposed to wood. Pencil marks for quilting very evident.
Object ID
G.01.46.01
Place of Origin
Strasburg
Credit
Gift of Hannah C. Brackbill, Heritage Center Collection
Log Cabin quilt, Straight Furrow variation. Made of pieced cotton prints; over 30 different prints are used in the 30 blocks. The design creates diagonal "stripes" of alternating dark and light colors. Center square of all blocks is the same pink floral print. A 6" outer red print forms border and also binds edges, turned and stitched to back. Back is a dark brown print of circles on flecked ground.
Lancaster County or region.
Quilting is inexpertly hand stitched in white, running in straight lines down the center of each "log".
An "X" in the center square of each block.
Provenance
Unknown provenance. Donors were dealers and acquired this quilt as part of their personal collection.
Quilt is white cotton, top and back, with appliques of potted floral design done in solid red and a green with lesser yellow highlights. Pattern is often called "Pot of Flowers." Center is divided into quadrants with an identical large flowering & fruiting potted plant supporting 4 birds in each, creating a symmetrical design.Ornate pot has handles and the branches have leaves of stylized oak, tulip and cucumber. Border has a pair of wide-spreading flowering & fruiting plants on each side and a bird perched on a smaller sprig at each corner.
Blue is used only on the tail of the four corner birds. Red cherries cluster around branches on each plant; yellow ones at branch tips only. Cherries are cotton-stuffed balls stitched to quilt top only. Chain-stitch embroidered stems done in white thread.
Quilting is done in a fine grid (about 1/2") of blue contrasting thread over entire surface. Binding is red and batting is sparse or nonexistent..
Attributed to Sarah Annie Maisey Marker Smith (22 February 1883 - 22 December 1965). Married twice, she had 7 children & made quilts for many if not all. The family called them "cherry quilts." See Notes.
Provenance
Donor reports quilt was acquired by his wife's parents, Lynn and Lois Langdon, who lived in Idaho and were antiques collectors. At an auction in Oregon state (c.1987-88), the quilt was described as a "Pennsylvania wedding quilt." The Langdons purchased it, thinking it would be appropriate for the Lancaster bed & breakfast "The Patchwork Inn" run by donor and his late wife. (Donor's wife, Joanne, died some time ago. He remarried and they continued the B&B for another 10 years.) The Martins had a collection of over 100 quilts in this B&B. Now retired, donor is finding homes for many of the quilts.
Bio. info on maker Sarah Annie was obtained by Trish Herr from Morgan Anderson (see file). Quiltmaker lived on Easterday Rd, north of Myersville, MD.
Red binding and many stuffed cherries heavily worn. Loss of 2 cherries on one of the large quadrant plants. Minor soiling with some liquid stains, mostly around edges. Reverse has light acid burn at some fold lines. Along one quilt edge are spaced eleven minor holes, probably where tacked up for display in B&B.
Object ID
G.02.47.01
Notes
Applique quilts such as this cherry type "Pot of Flowers" design with its color palette of red and green were being made circa 1850s-1870. Red and green applique quilts were popular in the East, then spread westward where they remained popular during this time, then faded. Two more Pot of Flowers are dated 1902 and 1904, but really had a significant resurgence in the1920s and 1930s. See Connie Nordstroms, "One Pot of Flowers Quilt Pattern -- Blossoming through Centuries", Vol. 23 of the Research Papers of the AQSG, 2002 in file.
Place of Origin
Myersville, Frederick County, Maryland
Role
Quiltmaker
Credit
Given by the W. Lee Martin family in memory of Joanne M. Martin, Heritage Center Collection
Nine-Patch Quilt with 4" square blocks set on point. Pieced cotton blocks composed of many multicolored prints and 2 solids (cheddar and tan). Alternate blocks are a pink print.
Nine-patch blocks arranged in 12 rows of 12 each. Top and bottom have floral print border on a dark gray ground; one is 3.5" wide and one 4.5" wide. Same print used as a binding, machine stitched to front, wrapped and hand stitched to back. Back is a cotton print of alternating floral and plain stripes.
Quilting is not carefully executed and uses sometimes white and sometimes tan thread. Parallel lines run through corners in both directions. Pink print blocks have added quilting around edges. Two borders have a repeating chevron design.
Amish Bars pattern Quilt, rectangular, pieced in gray synthetic fabric and black cotton. Back is pieced green cotton and is brought forward to create a 1/4" binding, which is secured with hand stitching. Quilting stitches in dark thread, mostly diagonal. No batting is evident.
January 26 & 1916 quilted into two different bars, diagonally opposite each other.
Due to the strong use of black, it indicates an origin outside of Lancaster County, most probably Ohio. Good comparison piece to Lancaster County Bars quilts
Provenance: Brockman purchased quilt from Kate Kopp of American Hurrah c.1994 in NYC.
Significant number of holes and losses, especially near binding. Some fading.
Amish quilt with a Goose Tracks pattern is made of polished cottons in light green, dark red and light blue. Pieced Goose Tracks blocks of red and blue appear on a center field of green. Of the 25 blocks, 13 are pieced, alternating with the remaining plain green blocks.
Outer border, 12" wide, is dark red. Blue binding is one inch wide. Reverse is a crepe wool of very dark purple/burgundy.
Perhaps Indiana
Quilting is hand done in white thread. Plain green blocks have a feather wreath with cross-hatched center. Goose Track blocks have a large-scale cross-hatch pattern. Border has a symmetrical arrangement of large motifs spaced distinctly apart from each other. Smaller tulip at center and two flanking, unusual feathers leaning away from tulip. Corners are delineated by piecing & quilting stitches. Each corner is quilted with a floral reel using 4 tulip-like flowers.
Most evident is the faded and soiled binding. Large semi-circular dark stains throughout red border. Strange streak-shaped fade marks mostly following one center fold line. White muslin is basted along one edge of reverse to create a crude sleeve.
Perhaps made in Indiana due to extensive use of red and pastels.
Most prominent is the faded and soiled binding. Large semi-circular dark stains throughout red border. Strange streaks of fading mostly follow one center fold line. A crude sleeve of white muslin is basted along one edge of back.
Object ID
G.08.17.02
Credit
Gift of Joanna S. Rose, Heritage Center Collection
Lancaster Amish Bars quilt of twill and plain weave wools, machine pieced, hand quilted. Seven bars, 3 dark red and 4 green, all vary in width 4.25" - 5.25". Surrounded by inner border, 3.25" - 3.5" in width, of dark green with corner squares of light green. Outer border is 10.5" wide of the same dark red as the bars. One-inch binding is a tan twill, machine-sewn in black.
Unknown Amish maker
Wool batting. Original red backing is covered over with cotton red check, machine-sewn in black around perimeter and tacked haphazardly throughout quilt with very noticeable heavy black thread extending from top to back. It has some puckering and fabric failure.
Hand quilted in black thread, diagonal grid throughout bars; inner border has pumpkin seed florets within a triple diamond pattern; corner blocks have a 15-petal flower; outer border has two undulating feathers gracefully criss-crossing each other with a horseshoe curve at corners.
Fragile with fading. Heavy fading within red border at head and foot; light streak through center bar. Binding is very thin and has multiple holes, tears and weakened areas. Obvious holes in red fields. Replaced backing with puckering and fabric failure.
Object ID
G.08.17.05
Place of Origin
Lancaster County
Credit
Gift of Joanna S. Rose, Heritage Center Collection
Lancaster Amish quilt, Center Square with Ninepatch, 5"-square blocks set on point. Top and back are all crepe or knitted wools except for outer border and binding which are plain weave.
9-blocks on point are red and green alternating with dark green blocks. Four 9-blocks have remnants of cursive lettering printed in yellow. Inner border is a grayish lavender with purple corner blocks. Outer border is blue with Kelly green corner blocks. Dark purple binding is 1.25" wide. Crepe wool backing is an unusual printed pattern of diagonal striping in mostly browns and greens.
Hand quilted in dark thread. 9-Patch blocks have a grid; alternating blocks of inner field have a multi-petal flower and half-blocks have triple chevrons. Inner border has pumpkin seed florets within triple diamond pattern; corner blocks filled with an 8-point star. Outer borders have an asymmetrical pattern of undulating feather motifs with empty spaces filled with multi-petal flowers.
Maker needed to piece various parts of quilt apparently due to insufficient yardage. Strips are added to ends of all 4 sides of blue outer border, two of the outer corner blocks, two of the inner border, and two half-blocks of inner field. Various components have been done in two different fabrics.
Ohio Amish quilt of cottons, pieced with a pattern called "Grandmother's Choice", according to Ladies Art Co. (pattern #129, published in the early 20th c.). One block has "1915" over "FG" embroidered in red.
Within an outer border of black (5" width on sides and 4" width on top and bottom) is a 2" wide inner border of pink. Inner field of quilt is pieced with black and various hues of blue. Field consists of rows of blocks on point, alternating from 3 to 4 blocks in each row, with 21 total blocks. Each block is pieced with black and one hue of blue to create the Crosses & Losses pattern. Half blocks around perimeter of field are all the same medium blue. Blocks are separated by black sashing, 2-3/4" wide.
Wool batting. The backing used the same coral pink polished cotton of the inner border. The pink binding, 3/8" wide, is made by bringing the backing forward and is machine stitched in white.
Most quilt blocks (18 of 21) have embroidered initials done in various colors, yarns, stitches (mostly chain stitch) and letter styles, obviously by different hands. (See drawing in file) Most (2/3) are done with cursive lettering in a very casual manner, especially compared with the expertly executed "FG" associated with the 1915 date. Half of the initials face one side and half the other.
Dense hand quilting done in lines with dark stitching throughout center field, except for light blue half blocks that are filled by a large half-flower done in white. Inner and outer borders both done in a shell pattern, white within pink border and black within black border.
Considerable fading, wear and soiling/staining, with wool batting visible through dark fabrics. This results in white spots sprinkled over surfac. See drawing of quilt condition in file.
Object ID
G.08.17.07
Place of Origin
Ohio
Credit
Gift of Joanna S. Rose, Heritage Center Collection
