QUILT INDEX RECORD
9-6-364
Who documented this quilt?
Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project
Where are the records for this quilt housed?
Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, Louisiana Tech University
Date data was collected:
5/31/1997
Interviewer:
Susan Roach
Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:
672
Quilt's title:
Dutch Doll
Quilt owner's city:
Hico
Quilt owner's state:
Louisiana (LA)
Quilt name or pattern used by family/owner:
Sunbonnet Baby
How was this quilt acquired?
Inheritance
Quilt top made by:
Roach, Frances
Quilted by:
Roach, Nell
Quiltmaker's ethnicity:
Anglo-American
Estimated number of quilts made by this quiltmaker:
more than 50
Did the quiltmaker make other quilts? Approximately how many? Where are they?
Learned to quilt from: She learned to quilt traditionally in Lincoln Parish from her family when she was a child. Other quilts by the quiltmaker: She probably made over 100 quilts. She preferred to quilt with cottons, scraps, and feed sack material.
Favorite pattern, piecing preferences, quilting is done with:
probably the double wedding ring
Type of item:
Finished quilt
Sizes, overall width:
58.5
Sizes, overall length:
78
Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:
Applique, Combination, Pieced
Binding:
Unfinished/raw edge
Brackman ID#:
47.14
Number of borders:
4
Describe the borders:
#NAME?
Top fabric, fiber:
Cotton
Top fabric, colors:
Gold; Green; Pink; Red; White; Yellow
How are the layers held together?
Hand quilting
Quilting, design:
By the Piece, Floral/Scroll
Related items such as diaries, obituaries, wills, household inventories, or pictures of the quiltmaker:
My grandmother, Frances Roach, made the blocks in the 1930s and my mother put them together and quilted them several years after my grandmother's death. Block were made 1930's, it was quilted 1989.
Family/owner's date for quilt:
1989
Who estimated the quilt's date?
Date estimated by Susan Roach
Place made, country:
United States
Copyright holder:
Louisiana Regional Folklife Program
Cite this Quilt
Roach, France. Dutch Doll. From Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, Louisiana Tech University, Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=9-6-364. Accessed: 03/29/24