QUILT INDEX RECORD

9-6-563

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:

9/26/1987

Interviewer:

Meadows

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

884

Quilt's title:

Hickory Leaf

Quilt name or pattern used by family/owner:

Hickory Leaf

Quilt top made by:

Blunt, Fannie Cox

Quilted by:

Blunt, Fannie Cox

Quiltmaker's date of birth:

2-10-1846

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

8/4/1932

Did the quiltmaker make other quilts? Approximately how many? Where are they?

Lived: Friendship Community (near Grand Cane LA)

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

70

Sizes, overall length:

78

Size of quilt blocks:

13 X 13

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Pieced

Binding:

Front turned to back; Hand sewn

Brackman ID#:

17.11

Number of borders:

4

Top fabric, fiber:

Other

Top fabric, design:

Feedsack

Describe the fibers or fabrics in the quilt top:

Tobacco Sacks

Top fabric, colors:

Pink; Red; Green; Brown; Beige or Tan; Gray; Black; White

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

5

Batting:

Other

Describe the quilt filling:

thin

Condition:

Fair/worn

Related items such as diaries, obituaries, wills, household inventories, or pictures of the quiltmaker:

"Sunday quilt" used on Sundays and special occasions. Tobacco sacks hand dyed. Green faded to beige by frequent "sunning." See #32, quilter is grandmother of owner. Design Unit: 17" Borders: 3" on top and bottom, 4.5" sides

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1900

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program