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American, Massachusetts

Quilt, ca. 1887

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

American

Title

Quilt

Year

ca. 1887

Medium

Pieced, embroidered, and painted silk velvet and satin

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk

Techniques

  • embroidery,
  • embroidering,
  • embroidered,
  • piecing,
  • patchwork

Dimensions

Length: 195.6 cm (77 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Women's Relief Corps

Place

Massachusetts

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Patricia Barrett

Object Number

80.280

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 6

Assemblage
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Homefront & Battlefield

Quilts & Context in the Civil War

Selected Works

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Infinite Variety

June 17 - September 18, 2005

This crazy quilt was a collaborative project. No attempt was made to limit what the contributors used or how they composed their individual square units. The end result is an expressionist explosion of color and texture, created from 33 separate blocks.

The Women's Relief Corps was an auxiliary to the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic, serving veterans and descendants of veterans who fought during the American Civil War as members of the North's armies.

A Decade of Collecting (Costume and Textiles)

July 17 - September 6, 1987

Needlework

February 19 - April 25, 1982

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Quilt with the accession number of 80.280. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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