Bedcover or Parlor Throw (Crazy Quilt)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Bedcover or Parlor Throw (Crazy Quilt)

Place

United States (Object made in)

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Made 1884

Medium

Silk and cotton, pieced plain, twill, and satin weaves, some with supplementary patterning warps, supplementary patterning and brocading wefts, self-patterning, and/or cut solid velvet; some painted; embroidered with silk in buttonhole, cross, double feather, feather, herringbone, satin, slanting Cretan, stem, and straight stitches; French knots

Dimensions

187.3 × 176 cm (73 3/4 × 69 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Graham

Reference Number

1973.319

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