Dress

United States

1915 - 1935

  • Titles Dress (Descriptive)
  • Medium velvet, chiffon, lace
  • Dimensions waist: 36 in. (91.4 cm) Overall: 33 1/4 in. (84.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Law Lamar, 1985.106
  • Work Type dress
  • Classification Costume

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Large quilt of plain and printed cotton fabrics in the "Snowball" pattern, the top with a pattern of small squares of different fabrics pieced in a grid pattern and on these are sewn rows of round, orange "snowballs" giving the quilt the look of an optical illusion, bordered on the two short sides with a band each of orange and blue fabrics (the blue is very faded) and on one long side edged in orange and on the other long side a blue band edged in orange, the backing of plain, cream-colored cotton.
Unknown pattern, serrated squares, brown backing.