Sunburst quilt, or Sunflower quilt, Julia Ann Chalmers

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Julia Ann Chalmers, Sunburst quilt, or Sunflower quilt
Julia Ann Chalmers
circa 1850
Sunburst quilt, or Sunflower quilt, circa 1850
Where object was made: Galway, New York, United States
Material/technique: cotton; calico; quilting; piecing
Credit line: Gift of Miss Jane Bunyan
Accession number: 1928.0915
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Exhibition Label:
"Quilts: Flora Botanica," Jun-2008, Barbara Brackman and Susan Earle
According to a label relating family history, Julia Chalmers made this quilt before her marriage in Galway, New York. The complex pieced design was named Sun, Sunburst, or Rising Sun in twentieth-century quilt pattern literature. We can also view it as a sunflower, an abstraction of nature’s geometry.

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