Crib Quilt
Unknown
ca. 1860 · Cotton, printed and pieced · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Medium
- Cotton, printed and pieced
- Culture
- probably English
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Karen B. Cohen, in honor of Rochelle C. Rosenberg, 2022
