Double-Sided Sampler / Bars Quilt
1929-1939
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Double-Sided Sampler / Bars Quilt
1929-1939
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 83 x 67 in. (210.8 x 170.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Greif, Jr., Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number
2016.106
Pieced rectangular quilt featuring a different quilt pattern and construction on each side. The obverse consists of a sampler quilt with 42 blocks (7 vertical, 6 horizontal), each approximately H: 9-1/1 to 9-3/4 x W 9 to 9-3/4" and displaying a different pieced quilt patterns, including:Indiana Puzzle, Grandmother's Cross, Eight Pointed Star, Windmill, Swastika.
These are composed of solid cotton fabrics in shades of pink, salmon, green, black, blue-green, purple, brown, bright blue, navy blue, yellow, grey, white or cream, beige, mustard yellow. the blocks are separated by wide bright blue sashing (approximately 1-5/8" wide vertical members; approximately 2" wide hoizontal members), and surrounded by a blue border approx. 1-1/4" wide on all sides.
The reverse of the samper quilt is an Amish or Amish-style Bars quilt with four wide vertical black bars and 2 wide horizontal black bars, on a blue ground, thus creating three wide bright blue bars in the center. All piecing is done by machine. Quilting is by hand in approximately 4 or 5 stitches per inch counting stitches top only and 9 or 10 stitches per inch counting both top and bottom. Brown plied thread is used throughout to form quilting patterns of crossed diagonal lines. The edges are covered with a 1" binding in dark or navy blue (now faded to greyish blue on the front, which shows approximately 1/2" on either face of the quilt. The binding is attached to the straight of grain on the reverse and brought over to the front (sampler) side. This binding is attached with small but somewhat crude machine stitches that sometimes go off of the straight of the tape and miss the edging.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2016; Nanette and Irvin Greif, Jr.
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Brackman, Clues in the Calico, p. 56, illustration.
Brackman, Barbara. " An Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns." . Lawrence, Kansas: Prairie Flower Publishing, 1984.
Breneman, Judy Anne. " Amish Quilts & Quilting History: Beauty in Simplicity." " Traditional Amish Quilts & Quilting History: Simple Beauty, America's Quilting History," 2001, pp.1-2, womenfolk.com.
Geis, Darlene. ed., "The Quilt Encyclopedia Illustrated." New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 199, pp. 14, pp.16, pp.143, unumbered illustrations throughout.
Holstein, Jonathan, "The Pieced Quilt an American Design Tradition," Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1973, pp.99-101, ill no. 33-36,38.
Kiracofe, Roderick and Mary Elizabeth Johnson, " The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort 1750-1950," New York, NY: Clarkson Potter, 1993, pp.212-215, chap. "Quilts from the Amish," ill. 216-221.
Peace, Jennifer, "Amish Style Sampler Quilt," Image saved from quiltersconnection.org.
Shaw, Robert, "American Quilts: The Democratic Art, 1780-2007," New York, NY: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2009, pp.57-58, pp.192-219, unnumbered illustrations throughout.
Rubin,Stella, " Sampler Quilt: Circa 1880; Pennsylvania," Stella Rubin Antique Quilts & Decorative Arts,2015, online listing www.stellarubinsantiques.com.
Rubin, Stella, "Sampler Quilt: Signed and Dated 1892," Stella Rubin Antique Quilts & Decorative Arts, 2015, online listing www.stellarubinsantiques.com.
