QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Quilts of Tennessee

The Quilts of Tennessee Documentation Number:

0321

Ownership of this quilt is:

Public-Other

Quilt owner's name:

Cocke County Museum

Quilt owner's city:

Newport

Quilt owner's state:

Tennessee (TN)

Alternate inventory control number:

0321a

Describe the relationship to the quilt's maker:

Museum acquired as donated gift

How was this quilt acquired?

Gift

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

Made as a wedding gift for son, Robert, and his bride, Sarah Jane Huff. m. 1871

Describe anything about the history of the quilt that wasn't already recorded in a previous field:

Descended through family and donated to the Newport-Cocke County Museum.

Where the quilt was made, city:

Rocky Flats Community

Where the quilt was made, county:

Cocke

Where the quilt was made, state:

Tennessee (TN)

Where the quilt was made, country:

United States

Time period:

1850-1875

Quilt top made by:

Baxter, Elizabeth Mathews

Quilted by:

Baxter, Elizabeth Mathews

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

Quilts of Tennessee: Images of Domestic Life Prior to 1930 by Bets Ramsey & Merikay Waldvogel

How wide is the quilt?

64

How long is the quilt?

81

Size of quilt blocks:

10 x 10

Shape of corners:

Straight

Owner's name for quilt:

Friendship

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

30 pieced/20 plain/18 half/4 quarter

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Hand Piecing

Can you feel or see paper on the quilt that was used as a construction aid?

no

Overall condition:

Good/moderate use

Damage:

Stains; Wear to edge or binding

Describe the damage:

Surface abrasion

Overall color scheme:

Multicolor; Dark colors

What color is the quilt?

Red; Rust; Pink; Orange; Blue or Navy; Purple; Black; Beige or Tan

Antique colors:

Cheddar Orange or Antimony or Chrome Orange; Madder Orange; Madder Red or Cinnamon Red; Double Pink; Madder Brown; Chocolate Brown or Hershey Brown; Prussian Blue or Lafayette Blue; Cadet Blue; Manganese Bronze

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

On point or rotated on 45 degrees

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Alternating with plain squares

Shape of edge:

Straight

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Description of the back:

unbleached domestic

How is the binding made?

Straight grain

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Thread type used for the quilting:

cotton

Color of thread used in the quilting:

white/brown

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

7

Width between quilting lines:

1 inch

Quilting designs used, overall motifs:

Echo; Grid diamond; Outline; Patches outlined/in the ditch

Quilting designs used, background fills:

Grid/crosshatch

Exhibitions where this quilt was displayed:

Quilts of Tennessee Exhibit (Touring exhibit showcasing selected quilts from Quilts of Tennessee research project.) American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, TN (Nov - Dec 1986); Rose Center, Morristown, TN (Feb - Mar 1987); Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN (Apr – May 1987); Nathanial Greene Museum, Greeneville, TN (June 1987); Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN (July – Aug 1987); Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN (Oct – Nov 1987); Pink Palace Museum, Memphis, TN (Nov 1987 – Jan 1988); Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN (Jul – Aug 1988)

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Tennessee State Library and Archives

Choose the best description of the source to the quilt:

Quilt owner

If you are the quilt owner, how did you acquire this quilt?

Other

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

Copyright holder:

Quilts of Tennessee

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