QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project; Quilts and Health

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, Louisiana Tech University

Date data was collected:

4/23/2002

Interviewer:

Susan Roach

Lousiana Quilt Documentation Project Number:

324

Quilt's title:

Grandmother's Flower Garden

Quilt owner's city:

Natchitoches

Quilt owner's state:

Louisiana (LA)

Quilt name or pattern used by family/owner:

The Hexagon

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Reasons quilt was made:

Personal enjoyment

Quilt top made by:

Royston, Sallie

Quiltmaker's date of birth:

1860

Quiltmaker's birthplace, city:

Natchitodes

Quiltmaker's birthplace, state:

Louisiana

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

1940

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Sibley

Quiltmaker's ethnicity:

Anglo-American

Did the quiltmaker make other quilts? Approximately how many? Where are they?

LA Learned to quilt from: From the mother of Leo Royston, and from craftman Whitiker at Natchitoches Folk Festival

Type of item:

Finished quilt

Sizes, overall width:

66

Sizes, overall length:

85

Size of quilt blocks:

8.5 X 9

Quilt type, applique:

Hand Applique

Describe the techniques used to make the quilt top:

Pieced

Pieced quilt type:

Block pattern

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Setting:

Side by side

Binding:

Back turned to front; Machine sewn

Brackman ID#:

160k

Number of borders:

4

Describe the borders:

2.5 inches wide, Single

Top fabric, fiber:

Cotton

Top fabric, design:

Print; Solid/plain

Top fabric, colors:

Green

Top fabric, color value:

Dark colors

Backing/lining fiber:

Cotton

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

6

Quilting, design:

By the Piece

Batting:

Cotton

Condition:

Good/moderate use

Related items such as diaries, obituaries, wills, household inventories, or pictures of the quiltmaker:

This was one of her last quilts, circa 1939 - died of throat cancer in 1940.

Family/owner's date for quilt:

1939

Who estimated the quilt's date?

Date estimated by Susan Roach

Describe embellishment materials or techniques:

for side borders

Describe the relationship to the quilt's maker:

great-grandmother

Place made, country:

United States

Copyright holder:

Louisiana Regional Folklife Program