QUILT INDEX RECORD

9-6-1203

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:

9/25/1988

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

1611

Quilt's title:

Dutch Doll

Quilt owner's city:

Fryeburt

Quilt owner's state:

Louisiana (LA)

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

Quilt top made by:

Stewart, Mattie

Quiltmaker's date of birth:

8/26/1903

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

1/31/1985

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

70

Sizes, overall length:

90

Size of quilt blocks:

11 X 11

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Combination, Embroidery, Pieced

Binding:

Straight grain

Top fabric, fiber:

Cotton

Top fabric, colors:

Pink; Red; White

Top fabric, color value:

Multicolor

Backing/lining fiber:

Cotton

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

6

Quilting, color of thread:

white

Quilting, design:

Other, Outline/Diagonals

Condition:

Fair/worn

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

This quilt has been in owner's possesion since her marriage in the 1940's. Blocks look like ther are sugar sacks. Back is cotton sacks. the ladies carded the cotton for the batting. Also quilted by Bertha Russell Stewart.

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1930

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Describe the relationship to the quilt's maker:

mother and grandmother

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program