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Description
This is a handsewn wholecloth quilt with printed cotton fabric and whitework. The printed fabric was designed by Jean Pillement (1728-1808) and printed at Bromley Hall in London, England in the late 1700s, but the style of quilting and motifs used date the quilt itself to the 1820s. It is quilted on both sides, indicating it was intended to be reversible. It was probably made to match both a set of winter and summer bed hangings. The quilt consists of two types of cloth: the top is professionally woven copper plate printed cotton, and the bottom is white, handwoven cotton. The printed side has three pieces seamed together; the white side is seamed in the center. All four sides are hemmed by turning towards one another. The quilting was worked in 8-9 stitches per inch. At the center of the quilted pattern is a large symmetrical tulip medallion within a scalloped octagonal shape. The center field has a diamond quilted ground and is accented by floral medallions in the corners. The border is also diamond quilted and contains half circles which enclose tulip motifs. This object is one of a large group transferred to Winterthur from the American Textile History Museum when it closed in 2017.