Collective Series IV

Ann Gardner

1993

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Sunburst quilt
Large unbleached plain-weave white cotton bedspread or coverlet made up of three vertically oriented panels stitched together and decorated with white candlewick embroidered floral motifs, at the top in large letters the signature and date " Martha R. Richards / 1833," below the signature an urn with flowers and vines at bottom center with flowers filling the central portion of the coverlet and vines snaking along the left and right edges with flowers emanating from them, the two long sides and lower edge finished with a knotted border and fringe of unbleached cotton, the top edge is finished with a border of cotton fringing.
Snail Trail
Cotton quilt in the Tulips pattern, composed of a grid of twelve squares bordered in green within each square on a cream-colored ground a design of four reddish-brown tulips with green leaves in an X pattern.