Quilt Blocks, “Spiderweb Star” or “String Star” pattern

Alabama

1950s

  • Titles Quilt Blocks, "Spiderweb Star" or "String Star" pattern (Descriptive)
  • Artist Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, United States
  • Medium textiles
  • Dimensions each: 14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Helen and Robert Cargo, AFI.164.2009.1-.20
  • Work Type quilt blocks
  • Classification Quilts

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Large hand-sewn quilt in the "Caesar's Crown" pattern made with a plain cream-colored cotton backing edged in green with a border of tiny brown flowers on an ivory ground and an interior border in a green print, the top of the quilt with a cream-colored ground and a grid of red circles with green spikes and yellow reel centers that together form the image of a kind of crown, three of the circles of brown and cream printed fabric instead of red.
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Mosaic Lone Star quilt, with black background
Endless stairs quilt. Light colored fabric on lower left has printed, " Enterprise AL"