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"Strips" Quilt

A work made of pieced cotton, wool, polyester, silk, nylon, rayon, acrylic, and cellulose acetate, plain weaves, plain weave derived float weaves, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided pile, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; twill weaves, twill weave with self-patterning ground weft floats; machine single and double knits and machine knot with supplementary cut pile; some printed; pieced; edged with cotton, plain weave, printed; backed with polyester, plain weave; printed.

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  • A work made of pieced cotton, wool, polyester, silk, nylon, rayon, acrylic, and cellulose acetate, plain weaves, plain weave derived float weaves, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided pile, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; twill weaves, twill weave with self-patterning ground weft floats; machine single and double knits and machine knot with supplementary cut pile; some printed; pieced; edged with cotton, plain weave, printed; backed with polyester, plain weave; printed.

Date:

1980s

Artist:

Gearldine Westbrook
American, 1919-2016
United States, Alabama, Gee’s Bend

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Gearldine Westbrook

Title

"Strips" Quilt

Place

Alabama (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1980–1989

Medium

Pieced cotton, wool, polyester, silk, nylon, rayon, acrylic, and cellulose acetate, plain weaves, plain weave derived float weaves, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided pile, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; twill weaves, twill weave with self-patterning ground weft floats; machine single and double knits and machine knot with supplementary cut pile; some printed; pieced; edged with cotton, plain weave, printed; backed with polyester, plain weave; printed

Dimensions

228 × 195.7 cm (89 3/4 × 77 in.)

Credit Line

Robert Allerton Endowment

Reference Number

2002.383

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