Quilt top

1800

Medium: Medium: cotton, paper Technique: printed cotton, pieced and sewn, paper backing
Genre: Printed, dyed & painted textiles
Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Unfinished patchwork quilt top with a design of hexagons arranged as flowers on a white ground. Some of the fabrics are English block prints from the 1780s and 1790s; others are 19th century roller-printed fabrics. The hexagonal shapes were formed over paper patterns, still present.