Evening Star quilt, or Sawtooth quilt, or Ohio Star quilt, or Crystal Star quilt, or Joining Star quilt, or Cog Block quilt, Maria Kemper Kunkel

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Maria Kemper Kunkel, Evening Star quilt, or Sawtooth quilt, or Ohio Star quilt, or Crystal Star quilt, or Joining Star quilt, or Cog Block quilt
Maria Kemper Kunkel, Evening Star quilt, or Sawtooth quilt, or Ohio Star quilt, or Crystal Star quilt, or Joining Star quilt, or Cog Block quilt
Maria Kemper Kunkel
Evening Star quilt, or Sawtooth quilt, or Ohio Star quilt, or Crystal Star quilt, or Joining Star quilt, or Cog Block quilt
circa 1880–1900
Evening Star quilt, or Sawtooth quilt, or Ohio Star quilt, or Crystal Star quilt, or Joining Star quilt, or Cog Block quilt, circa 1880–1900
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: cotton; quilting; piecing
Credit line: Gift of Elizabeth A. Hazlett in memory of Lizzie K. Robinson
Accession number: 1982.0061
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Geometric Abstractions: Quilts 1870 to 1990," Jun-2002, Samantha Schramm In this quilt, the Ohio Star or Variable Star pattern is created from the combination of triangles and squares. Depending on slight differences in the arrangement of shapes and colors, the pattern is sometimes also called Lone Star or Texas Star.