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QUILT INDEX RECORD

12-8-10170

Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project; The Henry Ford Collection

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

87.0147

Owner's name for the quilt:

Rising Sun

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Sunflower

Quilt top made by:

Ganong, Nancy

Quilted by:

Ganong, Nancy

If you are a relative of the quiltmaker, how are you related? The quiltmaker is my:

Quilt owner

Where the quilt was made, city:

Irontown

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1876-1900

When was the quilt finished?

c1880

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Iron Town

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's birth date:

1852

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

72 1/2"

How long is the quilt?

99"

Shape of edge:

Straight

What color is the quilt?

White

Antique colors:

Indigo Blue

What is inscribed on the quilt?

Nancy Ganong

Location of inscription:

on back

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

24

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Separated by plain sashing

Number of borders:

1

Describe the borders:

appliqued, eagles & scrolls

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

Applique techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Applique

Quilting designs used, decorative motifs:

Floral

Describe the quilting designs used:

Outline/Ditch

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

Published in MIchigan Quilts, fig. 42, p. 42. From Homage to Amanda Two Hundred Years of American Quilts, From the Collection of Edwinn Binney, 3rd and Gail Binney-Winslow page 86-87.

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Edwin Binney

Quilt owner's country:

United States

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

From Homage to Amanda Two Hundred Years of American Quilts From the Collection of Edwinn Binney, 3rd and Gail Binney-Winslow We have already seen (in no. 22) that a wave of patriotism swept the country at the time of the Centennial celebration. Few quilts could better illustrate this fact than the one shown here. The eagle has been used as a motif in American decorative arts since the Federal Period and appeared profusely on every imaginable type of sourvenir during the late nineteenth century. the eagle repeat motif and the overall design concept of this quilt make it reminiscent of Centennial and earlier Jacquard woven coverlets. Especially during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, these professionally woven coverlets were frequently the best designed and most elaborately patterned textiles seen in the middle-class and rural homes of the Northeast. It seems natural, then, to suppose that these Jacquards would have inspired quiltmakers, who were making textiles of the same scale and function. 42. Rising Sun (or Sunflower) with Eagle border, c. 1870-1880, probably Irontown, Michigan, 72 1/2 x 99 inches, pieced and appliqued cottons. "Nancy Ganong" is written in ink on a cloth tag sewn to the backing. According to A History of the Decendents of Jean Guenon of Flushing, Long Island, published in 1906, Nancy Viola Ganong was born in 1852 in Irowntown, Michigan. Variations of this quilt have appeared in an exhibit at the Henry Ford and in a quilt kit published by Paragon #01123 after being written up in Woman's Day magazine in the 1930s.

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

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

Made entire quilt

Who photographed this quilt?

Sharon Risedorph

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum

Cite this Quilt

Ganong, Nanc. Rising Sun. c1880. From Michigan State University Museum, Michigan Quilt Project; The Henry Ford Collection. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=12-8-10170. Accessed: 03/28/24

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