Crib Quilt
The modest handiwork of this crib quilt suggests that it was amateur work, perhaps assembled by a female relative celebrating the arrival of a new baby. Although at first glance the quilt appears to be a patchwork of small fabric fragments, in fact the central element with its patterned corners is a continuous printed motif, designed to imitate the appearance of a pieced quilt. The anonymous seamstress has inventively amended her pre-printed quilt kit by partly superimposing two of the rose-bush squares, in doing so expanding the quilt’s height.
Artwork Details
- Title: Crib Quilt
- Date: ca. 1860
- Culture: probably English
- Medium: Cotton, printed and pieced
- Dimensions: 29 1/2 × 29 1/2 in. (74.9 × 74.9 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Embroidered
- Credit Line: Gift of Karen B. Cohen, in honor of Rochelle C. Rosenberg, 2022
- Object Number: 2022.147.1
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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