Hidden Garden

Joan Takayama-Ogawa

2004

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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.
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.
Rozane-Pattern burnt orange vase, shape No. 3-8", hairline crack through rim beside one handle
Quilt, "Broken Star" pattern, Nora Ezell, textiles