stuffed whitework quilt, counterpane, Elizabeth Holmes Adams

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Elizabeth Holmes Adams, stuffed whitework quilt, counterpane
Elizabeth Holmes Adams, stuffed whitework quilt, counterpane
Elizabeth Holmes Adams
stuffed whitework quilt, counterpane
1820
Elizabeth Holmes Adams, artist
1798–1838
stuffed whitework quilt, counterpane, 1820
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: stuffing; cotton; quilting
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. W. H. Sears
Accession number: 1930.0004
Not on display
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Archive Label 2003:
When cotton thread and cotton fabric became widely available around 1800, quilt makers in the United States began to craft heavily quilted white-work bedspreads such as this one. Despite its yellowing and rust stains, this whole cloth quilt is an outstanding example of intricate stuffed quilting. This quilt was published in Carrie Hall and Rose Good Kretsinger’s text The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt and praised there for its technique.

Exhibitions

Quilts from the Permanent Collection
1992