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:

85.1652

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

1998:53.40

Object label:

Full Blown Tulip
Member of the Parshall family
Saginaw County, Michigan
1850
Collection of Michigan State University Museum acc.#1998:53.40

Essay:

This pattern requires expert needlework as the piecing is demanding. It is hard to discern tulips in this crown-like pattern. The pattern must have been inspired by looking directly down on a completely opend tulip. Rose and green cotton prints.

By Gwen Marston from The Mary Schafer Quilt Collection exhibit catalogue.

Owner's name for the quilt:

Full Blown Tulip

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Caesar's Crown

Biography of the quiltmaker?

Israel Parshall came to Michigan from Chemung, New York in 1835 and settled in Livingston County, where he founded the town of Parshalville before moving north to Saginaw County. In 1856 he built the Havana Water Powered Flour Mill two miles south of Chesaning on the Shiawassee River. Three generations of Parshalls operated the mill before it was sold in 1943.

When was the form filled out?

9/9/1985

Other people who worked on this quilt:

Family of Israel Parshall

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

Purchased the quilt

Where the quilt was made, county:

Saginaw

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1850-1875

When was the quilt finished?

c1850

Quilt is presently used as:

Museum collection

Quiltmaker's county:

Saginaw

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

71 7/8"

How long is the quilt?

78 1/8"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

Quilt's condition:

Fair/worn

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

20

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Side by side

Number of borders:

3

Describe the borders:

outer 3.25" appliqued; middle 2" plain, green; inner 3.25" appliqued

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Fabric styles used in the quilt top:

Print

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

Applique techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Applique

Embellishment techniques used to make the quilt top:

Embroidery

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

3

How is the binding made?

Bias grain

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:

7

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

8

Quilting designs used, decorative motifs:

Floral

Quilting designs used, background fills:

Grid/crosshatch

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Whaley House Museum, Flint, MI

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?

Purchase

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum