Name/Title

Quilt

Entry/Object ID

2001.48.15

Description

Quilt, "Pieced Basket" pattern, pieced by the blocks, 30 9.5" blocks, handsewn, 2.5" dogtooth border, white with multi-color cotton baskets, cotton binding, muslin backing, 10 stitches/inch with white cotton thread, cotton batting, quilted by the block and in the background in grids and parallel lines, quilted in plain blocks with basket design with names on some and clamshells, parallel lines in border, rounded corners, fabrics c. 1850. Per Knoxville quilt historian Merikay Waldvogel: * Fabrics with teal are British imports, 1840-1850; border fabrics look 1880s-1890s.

Collection

Linda Claussen and the Thursday Bee Quilt Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Grove, Susan Senter

Date made

1880 - 1899

Dimensions

Width

69 in

Length

86 in