QUILT INDEX RECORD

9-6-2260

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:

6/25/2002

Interviewer:

Susan Roach

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

252

Quilt's title:

Mother's Flower Garden

Quilt owner's city:

Tensas Parish

Quilt owner's state:

Louisiana (LA)

Quilt name or pattern used by family/owner:

Mother's Flower Garden

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Quilt top made by:

Flowers, Emily Gertrude Frisby

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Housewife

Quiltmaker's date of birth:

1830

Quiltmaker's birthplace, city:

Tensas Parish

Quiltmaker's birthplace, state:

Louisiana

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

1874

Highest education level completed:

Elementary

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' occupation:

Farmer

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Frisby

Number of children:

4

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

Location of quiltmaker's death: Tensas Parish LA Learned to quilt from: She was born a seemstress. Just had a knack for sewing. Made all her family's clothes. Other quilts by the quiltmaker: Made all the quilts her family needed. Don't know where they are. She went by stage coach to a girls school in Kentucky while young.

Major influences on quiltmaking?

don't know.

Favorite pattern, piecing preferences, quilting is done with:

Don't know.

Reason(s) for quiltmaking:

Necessity

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

78

Sizes, overall length:

79

Size of quilt blocks:

8 X 9

Sizes, sashing width:

2

Quilt type, applique:

Hand Applique

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Pieced

Pieced quilt type:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Setting:

Side by side

Binding:

Bias grain; Front turned to back; Hand sewn; Machine sewn

Pattern name (from researcher):

Handed down to oldest daughter - 4 generations

Brackman ID#:

160k

Describe the borders:

-Not Applied-

Top fabric, fiber:

Cotton; Other

Top fabric, design:

Print; Solid/plain

Describe the fibers or fabrics in the quilt top:

Linen

Top fabric, colors:

Gold; Orange; Pink; Red; Yellow

Top fabric, color value:

Multicolor; Light or pastel colors

Backing/lining fiber:

Cotton

Backing/lining, design:

Print

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

8

Quilting, type of thread:

cotton

Quilting, color of thread:

pink

Quilting, design:

By the Piece

Batting:

Wool

Describe the quilt filling:

Hand Graded by Wool on Farm

Condition:

Fair/worn

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

Every stitch by hand. Cut pieces by hand. Lined with sheep's wool grown on the farm. Passed down from original maker to daughter, then granddaughter and great granddaughter.

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1859

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program