- Wholecloth Quilt
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Technical notes and description: Tabby-weave cotton face and back; cotton filling. Four panels of cloth form this near square, white, stuffed-work quilt. The motif is outlined with running stitches beginning with a central floral and fruit basket framed by four garland borders: wheat, coiling morning-glorylike vine, floral and fruit swag rising to bowknots, and grapevine. The last two border only three sides, and in the pillow area the decorative quilting ends.
Related examples: Hoke 1985, pp. 20–21; Nelson and Houck 1982, p. 59; White 1948, pp. 42–43.
Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg; Estate of Miss Ima Hogg, 1975; given to MFAH, 1976
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