Object Number 1966.0143

Object Name

Quilt (Strip quilt)

Category

Textiles (Furnishing)

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Stockwell

Place of Origin

United States, North America

Secondary Place of Origin

England, United Kingdom, Europe

Secondary Origin Notes

The appliqued eagle print is cut from a roller-printed fabric that was printed in England, c. 1850.

Date

1830-1950

Subjects

American eagle

Materials

Cotton; Linen

Techniques

Appliqued, Pieced, Quilted, Woven (plain), Roller printed, Mordant style

Construction Description

Hand-stitched

Dimensions (inches)

105.75 (L) , 96.5 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

268.605 (L) , 245.11 (W)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Montgomery, Florence. 1970 Printed Textiles: English and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850.
• Textile with same pattern with different ground color, p. 339, fig. 397
[Catalogue] Victoria and Albert Museum & Floud, Peter. 1955 Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of English Chintz: Two Centuries of Changing Taste.
• Information on textile with similar pattern, p. 34, # 163
[Book] Storey, Joyce. 1974 The Thames and Hudson Manual of Textile Printing.
• Information on mordant style, pp. 11-12
[Chapter] Bide, Martin. Secrets of the Printer's Palette, Colors & Dyes in Rhode Island Quilts [Book] Welters, Linda & Ordoñez, Margaret. Down by the Old Mill Stream: Quilts in Rhode Island. 83-121.
• Information on mordant style, pp. 88, 101-104
[Thesis] Sykas, Philip Anthony. 10//2000 Material Evidence: Nineteenth Century Calico Printers' Pattern Books. 275-343 Ph.D. The Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Textiles/Fashion
• Information on roller and cylinder printing, pp. 276-312
[Book] Eaton, Linda. 2007 Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection.
• Textile with same pattern, Chapter 6, p. 160