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QUILT INDEX RECORD

32-28-422

Alberta Heritage Quilt Project Number:

AHQP 1-0304

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Royal Alberta Museum

Who documented this quilt?

Alberta Heritage Quilt Project; Heritage Park Collection

Alternate inventory control number:

HP 4641.1

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

When was the form filled out?

02-17-1993

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

Received as a gift

Where was the quilt documentation day held?

Calgary

This is a:

Finished quilt

Owner's name for quilt:

Spiderweb

How wide is the quilt?

64.5 inches

How long is the quilt?

76.5 inches

Overall color scheme:

Multicolor

Quilt's condition:

Poor/very worn

Damage:

Stains

Describe the damage:

Chewed by rodents

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

50 (30 pieced blocks and 20 solid blocks)

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Alternating with plain squares

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing; Machine Piecing

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

What color is the back of the quilt?

White

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

2

How is the binding made?

Bias grain; Commercial; Machine sewn

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Cotton

How thick is the quilt?

Medium (3/16?)

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

5

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

6

Quilting designs used, overall motifs:

In-the-ditch; Single parallel lines

Describe the quilting designs used:

Each block contains 8 wedges made up of 6 stripes. The quilting follows the strips.

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

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

Donated to Heritage Park

Ownership of this quilt is:

Public Museum, Library or Institution

Quilt owner's name:

Heritage Park

Quilt owner's city:

Calgary

Quilt owner's province:

Alberta

Quilt owner's country:

Canada

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

Copyright holder:

Royal Alberta Museum

Cite this Quilt

Spiderweb. From Royal Alberta Museum, Alberta Heritage Quilt Project; Heritage Park Collection. Published in The Quilt Index, https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=32-28-422. Accessed: 03/28/24