QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

84.0035

Owner's name for the quilt:

New York Beauty

When was the form filled out?

10/30/1984

Quilt top made by:

Plumb, U. Florine

If you are the quilt owner, how did you acquire this quilt?

Made the quilt

Where the quilt was made, city:

Jackson

Where the quilt was made, county:

Jackson

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1930-1949

When was the quilt started?

1934

When was the quilt finished?

1938

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

MIdland

Quiltmaker's county:

Midland

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Folks

Quiltmaker's birth date:

3/19/1899

Quiltmaker's educational background:

High School 1916 Hanover, MI. MAC - MSU 1920 Registered as Uma Flousen Folks.

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

Was Methodist, now Presbyterian

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Taught school in Lake Orion. Concord Vandercook Lake. A science teacher.

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Folks, William

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

English

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Folks, Gertrude Hooper

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

English

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and /or partner's/partners' name(s):

Plumb, Harold Jacob

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' ethnic/tribal background:

English

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

Electrical Engineer Consumers Power Company 47 years

Number of children:

2

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

2

How did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

From Relative

When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Under 10 years of age

Why does the quiltmaker quilt?

Pleasure

Other notes on how the quiltmaker learned, and how and why they quilt:

Some of them were given as wedding presents or gifts for a new baby.

Does/did the quiltmaker teach quilting?

yes

Does/did the quiltmaker belong to a group? Name of the group?

Aunts Hanover Township

Where does/did the group meet?

Jackson County, MI

What are the main activities of the group?

Grange Farm Bureau, Eastern Star, Methodist Church

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

76"

How long is the quilt?

76"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

Quilt's condition:

Very good/almost new

What is inscribed on the quilt?

F.F.P.

What is the date inscribed on the quilt?

1938

Location of inscription:

on back

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

4 whole, 8 half

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Side by side

Sashing width:

5 1/2"

Number of borders:

3

Describe the borders:

pieced as sashing: 3 strips, inner & outer blue/white dogtooth, middle solid white.

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

1

What is the width of the binding (measure on the top only)?

less than a half inch

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Cotton

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

10

Describe the quilting designs used:

Triangles, circles

Where did the maker get their materials?

Purchased new

Describe the sources of the quilt's materials:

At this time percale, a kind of cloth, cost ten cents per yard. Fabric were bought at Fields Store in Jackson, MI.

Where did the maker find their pattern?

Commercial/Published source: Book

Commercial name of the pattern for the top:

Mountain Mist pattern, New York Beauty, seen at the Chicago's World's Fair, 1933. See page 52 of Patchwork Souvenirs, by Waldvogel and Brackman.

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Michigan Quilts: A Celebration of 150 Years of Textile Tradition, East Lansing, MI, September 12-November 1, 1987, Kresge Art Museum, MSU; Consumers Power Co. Art Show 194?; Antique Society Salvation Army Building, 1976, Midland, MI

Contests entered:

Jackson County Fair,, Jackson, MI, 1945, First Prize

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

Michigan Quilts, fig. 156, p. 105. Midland Daily News, Midland, MI 2/16/1983. Mountain Mist wrapper with pattern

Publications (including web sites) where this quilt or maker was featured:

Poem written by maker. Midland Daily News, Midland, Michigan; Wednesday, February 16, 1983; Page 9; Retired couple stays busier than ever. By Marilyn Findlay, Daily News staff writer

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Florine Plumb

Quilt owner's city:

MIdland

Quilt owner's county:

Midland

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Made by owner

Describe anything about the history of the quilt that wasn't already recorded in a previous field:

The first time I saw a quilt like this was at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1933. It was judged as the best pieced quilt at the exposition. It was auctioned off and sold for $1000. This was a huge sum for a quilt at the time of the depression. It took me four years to fashion the quilt and to put it all together. The quilting was done by a much more skilled quilter than I. She charged one dollar per spool of thread. She used twenty spool of thread.

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

How did the quiltmaker participate in the creation of the quilt?

Made entire quilt top

Who photographed this quilt?

Peter Glendinning

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum