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Pieced Quilt
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Pieced Quilt

Dateabout 1800-1820
MediumHand-stitched glazed worsted, or calamanco; plain-woven wool and linen; wool batting
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 97 1/2 x 103in. (247.7 x 261.6cm)
Other (area: cut-out corners, measured in square inches): 24 1/2in. (62.2cm)
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionPieced quilt constructed from a pink glazed worsted, or calamanco, quilted petticoat from the eighteenth century. The quilt is T-shaped and consists of a pieced top, batting, and a backing; these three layers have been hand-stitched together in a quilted pattern. The petticoat was cut in half down the sides and sewn together, top edge to top edge, so that the foliate scroll border quilting appears at the top and bottom of the central panel of the quilt. The rest of the center is filled with diamond grid quilting. Each side of the quilt is pieced in large triangles of pink, dark brown, and pale seafoam green worsted fabrics. The quilting pattern of the sides is of interlocking ovals, filled with parallel diagonal lines. The quilting threads are gold, brown, or blue, depending on the color of the fabric. The quilt backing is gold wool along the sides and brown/white wool/linen (probably) behind the petticoat.

Condition: The quilt has scattered small holes, with the largest at the bottom center. The top edge is frayed. One block on left side has a torn edge at the seam line.
Object number2002.56.1
On View
Not on view
1966.49.0 on a bed.
Lucy Arnold
1815
Gift of John T. Whitman, 1963.8.2  Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.  © 2009 The Connecticut Histor…
Esther Lyman
1730-1760
Museum purchase, 1985.45.0  Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.  © 2009 The Connecticut Historical So…
Betsey Payne
1808
Wholecloth Quilt
Asenath King
about 1787
Wholecloth Quilt
Mercy Copp
embroidered 1775-1800, quilted 1800-1825
Gift of the Lyman Allyn Museum, 1959.54.3  Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.   © 2009 The Connectic…
Unknown
1750-1770
Gift of Mrs. J. Chandlee Ergood, 1980.9.1  Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.  © 2009 The Connecticu…
Sylvia Punderson
1800-1825
Gift of the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, 1959.54.2  Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.  © 2009 Th…
Sarah Halsey
1758
Museum purchase, 1982.58.0  Photograph by Gavin Ashworth.  © 2009 The Connecticut Historical So…
Unknown
1750-1825
Museum purchase, 1982.97.3, Connecicut Historical Society, Copyright Not Determined
Susan Melissa Lewis
1880s
Gift of Mrs. Robert Leslie Cooper, 1965.8.0, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undeterm…
Mary Whaples
1850-1860
Pieced Quilt
Grace Emeline Parker
1860