QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project; Michigan State University Museum Collection

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

04.0193

If this quilt is owned by a museum, enter the accession number:

2004:132.1

Object label:

Double X
Maker unknown
Provenance unknown
c1890
Collection of Michigan State University Museum acc.#2004:132.1

Owner's name for the quilt:

Double X

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

Received as a gift

Where the quilt was made, country:

United States

Time period:

1876-1900

When was the quilt finished?

c1890

Quilt is presently used as:

Museum collection

Quiltmaker's country:

United States

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

72"

How long is the quilt?

83"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Antique colors:

Indigo Blue

Quilt's condition:

Excellent/like new

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

30

Size of quilt blocks:

7 1/2"

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Alternating with plain squares

Number of borders:

2

Describe the borders:

outer (red print) 7 1/2"; inner (green print) 2 1/2"

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:

3

How is the binding made?

Front turned to back

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:

8

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

7

Width between quilting lines:

1"

Quilting designs used, background fills:

Parallel lines

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

Steven Soward purchased this quilt from Xenia Cord. A photo copy of her sales tag and description are in the FAD file.

Source of the information on this quilt:

Museum employee

Ownership of this quilt is:

Public- Michigan State University Museum

Quilt owner's name:

Michigan State University Museum

Quilt owner's city:

East Lansing

Quilt owner's county:

Ingham

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

4/23/2004, Steven Sowards, donor purchased the quilt from Xenia Cord

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

A photo copy of her sales tag and description are in the FAD file. It reads: Double X Madder red, green, multi $775.00 - 10% ($70) = 700 + 42 (tax) =$742 72"x 83" 188-1900 east-central Indiana, maker unknown. Seven and a half inch blocks in a light/dark combination of prints in indigoes, reds and browns set with a unifying white with red dot are set together on point alternating with a madder red calico and with yellow and black figures. The design area is bordered by a 2 1/2" band of green calico and an outer border 7 1/2" wide of the red calico. The quilt is self-bound front over back in a narrow turn, and the back is navy and white small scale woven gingham. Entirely hand pieced and joined in tiny stitches, hand quilted in 1" parallels through the pattern blocks, and the same parallels reversing directions in the setting blocks. The borders are quilted in 1" echo chevrons. Unused and unwashed, very fresh. Color combination is strongly reminiscent of southeastern Pennsylvania.

Who photographed this quilt?

Pearl Yee Wong

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum