#American quilt

[the-cricket-chirps]

Rebecca Davis (American)

Quilt, Hexagon or Honeycomb pattern

1846

[midnightclaw]

[pwlanier]

Crazy Quilt with Animals

1886

Designed and executed by Florence Elizabeth Marvin

American, 1856-1916

United States, New York, Brooklyn Heights

AIC

[vintagehomecollection]

The Good Housekeeping Complete Guide to Traditional American Decorating, 1982

[futuristicson]

[killyridols]

untitled by rosie lee tompkins, 1987, 100.5 × 70.5 inches

[nobrashfestivity]

Faith Ringgold, detail from Born in a Cotton Field: The American Collection #3, 1997. Acrylic on canvas with painted and pieced fabric. 73 ½ × 79 ½ in (186.7 × 201.9 cm) Private collection

[arthistoryanimalia]

A second and very different piece from the Brooklyn Museum for #CephalopodWeek:

Jesse Krimes (b. 1982) Blackwater, 2021 Assorted textiles Brooklyn Museum

“To counter the dehumanizing isolation of incarceration, Jesse Krimes works collaboratively with currently and formerly incarcerated individuals to create artworks out of old clothing and textiles that evoke memories of home. The artist developed his own practice while serving a six-year prison sentence. In this work, Krimes regards the tentacled animal as "a panoptic state of surveillance" and alludes to the eugenic and white supremacist ideas embedded in American zoology. The title, Blackwater, refers to a prison in Florida.”

[blistexenthusiast]

Natalie Baxter, Warm Gun | Flag Quilt

[nemfrog]

Quilt. Cotton and synthetic metallic knit. 85 × 77 in. (215.9 × 195.6 cm). Nettie Jane Kennedy. ca. 1955.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

[oncanvas]

Crazy Too Quilt, Lia Cook, 1989

Dyed rayon, acrylic on woven and pressed abaca paper 63 ¼ x 86 ⅞ in. (160.7 x 220.6 cm) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

[the-cricket-chirps]

Emma Civey Stahl (American)

Woman's Rights Quilt

ca. 1875

Cotton

(The Met NY collection)

[museum-archives]

Crazy quilt

Made by: Celestine Bacheller (American (Wyoma, MA), 1839-about 1922)

American 1875-1900

Object Place: Wyoma, Lynn, Massachusetts, United States

Silk plain weave, velvet, and satin, pieced and embroidered

[pwlanier]

A quilt depicting snakes.

Unknown African American Maker, Quilted Bedcover, ca. 1875–1900, cotton top, linen back,

and cotton stuffing.

High Museum of Art

[vintagehomecollection]

Walls finished in white plaster accentuate the massive chestnut and pine beams left visible throughout the house. The tester bed was made by decoy carve Richard Morgan, a Woodbury resident.

American Country: The Country Home, 1988

[timetravelingcourtney]

Tenney got a bed!

I’ve been imagining using Molly’s Jenny Lind bed for Tenney for years.

When this beautiful handmade quilt came into my life I thought it would be perfect for her.

I made the stripe pillow from a Kirsten mattress that had been almost totally destroyed. The green pillow came with the quilt.

I feel honored to take care of this quilt for whomever it was originally made for ❤️