Name/Title

Quilt

Entry/Object ID

2006.31.1

Description

Quilt in the Crown of Thorns pattern (also known in Tennessee as Rising Sun); all cotton fabrics in red and beige (thought to be originally green) on an off-white background; pieced; cotton batting; quilted and bound by hand, quilting is grape vine with leaves and fruit (in the off-white background) and by the piece (around designs); 1870s-1880s based on pattern, color and fading of green to beige. c.1850-1870 per donor; 1870s-1880s per quilt historian Merikay Waldvogel of Knoxville, 8/9/2006.

Collection

Linda Claussen and the Thursday Bee Quilt Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Attribution

Molsbee (Molsby) Family

Date made

1870 - 1889

Dimensions

Width

69-3/8 in

Length

84 in