About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Title
- Bedcover (Crazy Quilt)
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Place
- United States (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1875–1880
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Medium
- Silk and cotton, pieced plain, twill and satin weaves; some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts; some self-patterned by main ground or complementary ground wefts; some with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet, cut and uncut solid velvet, cut and uncut voided velvet, cut solid stamped velvet and 'velours au sabre'; some printed painted or warp painted (chiné); some (moiré); one appliqué with silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; embroidered with silk in buttonhole, chain, detached chain, feather, double feather, herringbone, stem, straight and sheaf stitch variations; some stitches interlaced; French knots; lined with silk 7:1 satin weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave and ground weft floats
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Dimensions
- 188 × 134.3 cm (74 × 52 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Kent Clow
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Reference Number
- 1946.82
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/54852/manifest.json