Dress

United States

1956

  • Titles Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium silk, net, straw
  • Dimensions Overall: 45 in. (114.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Margaret Minge Agee, 1986.693a
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Large, hand-sewn rectangular quilt of cotton velvet, cotton and wool, in the Log Cabin pattern comprised of a grid of squares of crushed brown velvet strips and opposing green strips with a single maroon square in the center, with beige edging, the backing in a printed cotton floral fabric in shades of brown and red, repairs have been made throughout with orange and rust-colored velvet and brown cotton.
Large quilt in a variation of the "Whig's Defeat" pattern, on a cream-colored cotton ground a grid of twelve squares each enclosed in a pattern of double bands of repeating nailhead, or dogtooth, motifs in red cotton, at each corner an eight-point star in alternating orange and red, in the center of each square a cream-colored diamond on light blue ground with half-circle notches at each corner highlighted by a band of like nailhead motifs also in red, the backing cream-colored cotton, edged in red.
Five-Pointed Star in Circle quilt, stars in blue and green circles, red background
A large mold-formed pitcher decorated with corn stalks and ears throughout. The handle is shaped like a corn stalk.