Feather Crown with Ragged Robin in Center quilt block, Carrie A. Hall

Artwork Overview

1866–1955
Feather Crown with Ragged Robin in Center quilt block, circa 1930
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: cotton; appliqué
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): Original size 445 x 445 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 22 x 22 in
Credit line: Gift of Carrie A. Hall
Accession number: 1938.0712
Not on display

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Label texts

Archive Label 2003: This is a 19th-century, traditional pattern. Hall’s specific source was a quilt by Madge Farquhar Holstein. The pattern also appears in Ruth Finley’s book Old Patchwork Quilts and the Women Who Made Them (1929).

Exhibitions

Citations

Havig, Bettina. Carrie Hall Blocks: Over 800 Historical Patterns from the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. Paducah: American Quilter's Society, 1999.

Quilts in the World. Japan: N.Seto (?), 2008.

Shankel, Carol, ed. American Quilt Renaissance: Three Women who Influenced Quiltmaking in the Early 20th century. Tokyo, Japan: Kokusai Art, 1997.

Hall, Carrie A, and Rose G. Kretsinger. The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1947.