QUILT INDEX RECORD
29-24-2866
Where are the records for this quilt housed?
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Who documented this quilt?
Nebraska Quilt Project (Lincoln Quilters Guild)
Nebraska Quilt Project Number:
2280
When was the form filled out?
7/22/87 Blair
Names for quilt's pattern in common use:
Grandmother's Flower Garden
Brackman # or other source & #:
Brackman 0160k
How long is the quilt?
92 inches
Time period:
1930-1949
When was the quilt started?
1937
When was the quilt finished?
1982
Date estimated by an antique dealer, quilt historian or appraiser:
1937
Who estimated the quilt's date?
Date estimated by NQP committee member, corrected later if deemed appropriate by UNL graduate student researcher in consultation with Patricia Crews.
Further information concerning dates:
Date estimated.
Fiber types used to make the quilt top:
Wool
Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:
6.0 stitches per inch
Quilt top made by:
Mackeprang, Hulda
Where the quilt was made, country:
United States
Describe anything about the history of the quilt that wasn't already recorded in a previous field:
Quilt makers were hired; Quilt pieced by one person
Why was the quilt made?
Teaching or learning sample
Copyright holder:
Contact Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries for image use
Cite this Quilt
Mackeprang, Huld. Grandmother's Flower Garden. 1982. From University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Nebraska Quilt Project (Lincoln Quilters Guild). Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=29-24-2866. Accessed: 04/20/24