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Top By: Brown, Sue Dee Grainger
Quilted By: Brown, Sue Dee Grainger
Period: 1876-1900
Date: 1886
Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States
Project Name: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search
Contributor: Winedale, University of Texas at Austin
ID Number: tqs_0038
Layout Format: Block pattern
Quilt Size: 69 in. x 71 in.
Fabrics: Other, Silk, Velvet, Print, Multiple scrap, Solid/plain
Colors: Red, Gold, Fuchsia, Cream, Brown
Construction: Hand Piecing, Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Painting, Embroidery, Other embellishment technique, pieced commemorative ribbons; hand painted figure; embroidered sashing and sashing in different colors; elaborate edge
Quilting Techniques: Not quilted
Purpose or Function: Art or personal expression, Decorative throw
Other Notes: It is possible Mrs. Brown made this quilt as a wedding quilt for her marriage, which was either in 1887 or 1888. Her husband's initially are featured in the quilt's center block. Her granddaughter remembers her grandmother as doing a lot of needlework; she owns a table cloth and napkins that her grandmother made lace for. She also owns her grandmother's gold thimble, with her initials SDG (Sue Dee Grainger). Family history on the quilts states thatit won first prize at the St. Louis World's Fair.
Inscription: O.L.B. [Orville Leroy Brown, quilt maker's husband]
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