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9-6-507

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:

6/12/1997

Interviewer:

Susan Roach

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

820

Quilt's title:

Version of Rick Rack

Quilt owner's city:

Downsville

Quilt owner's state:

Louisiana (LA)

Quilt name or pattern used by family/owner:

None

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Quilt top made by:

Griffin, Allie Hammock

Quilted by:

Griffin, Allie Hammock

Quiltmaker's date of birth:

2/16/1898

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

6/2/1984

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Hammock

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: Allie Hammock Griffin learned to quilt from her mother Alice Hammock, who was born in Tulsa, OK on an Indian reservation. Alice and her brother left Tulsa and went to Geogia. She moved to Monroe LA and met George Hammock. They made their home around D Allie liked to change patterns and would cut them out of magazines like Good Housekeeping. She like to give quilts away. She had a steamstress daughter who liked to card cotton as a hobby.

Major influences on quiltmaking?

Alice taught Allie the basics of quilting, and then Allie learned some from other women in the Red Circle Club at each other's houses.

Favorite pattern, piecing preferences, quilting is done with:

Quilting done with: Other, Bow Tie, Tulip, Drunkard's Path

Reason(s) for quiltmaking:

Gifts

Type of item:

Quilt top with unfinished edge

Sizes, overall width:

77

Sizes, overall length:

84

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Pieced

Top fabric, colors:

Green; Pink; Red

How are the layers held together?

Not quilted

Condition:

Excellent/like new

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1930

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

Griffin, Allie Hammoc. Version of Rick Rack. From Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, Louisiana Tech University, Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=9-6-507. Accessed: 03/29/24