Textile Yardage: Appliqué Quilt (TK)

Object/Artifact

Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Large sample of printed quilt top.

Collection of Sara Leeper. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Textile Yardage: Appliqué Quilt (TK)

Description

A production sample retained as a print record. A four-color silkscreen print on white cotton percale depicting imagery inspired by early American appliqué quilts. Designed by Wert and produced as quilt tops for the Nettle Creek home goods company. Sara Leeper notes the Country Prints only did the printing. Quilt fabrication was performed by Nettle Creek.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints

Date made

circa 1963

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Location

Gill MA.

Continent

North America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Unsigned

Material

Cotton, Textile Ink

Color

Blue, Green, Red, Yellow Ochre