Quilt, “Hands All Around” pattern variation?

Lenora Mustin

About 1940

  • Titles Quilt, "Hands All Around" pattern variation? (Descriptive)
  • Artist Lenora Mustin, American, Pickensville, Alabama, died 1970s
  • Medium textiles
  • Dimensions 78 × 66 in. (198.1 × 167.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Robert and Helen Cargo African American Quilt Collection; Gift of Caroline Cargo, AFI.850.2013
  • Work Type quilt
  • Classification Quilts

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Snail Trail quilt, pink and green, (see other quilt from same family - machine appliqued Princess Feather quilt)
Tall wine glass with a burgundy-colored bowl, the exterior of which is covered with speckled gradations of violet that is darkest at the bottom of the bowl, the long stem carries the burgundy glass from the bowl inside it at the top in the form of a small tornado-like shape, the stem then a slightly translucent, but white glass that merges into an applied flower-like form that opens up to envelope the stem, the flower-like element of deep reddish-purple glass and with spiraling purple and white threads, the bottom of the stem is likewise slightly opaque, the round foot of clear glass.
Snail Trail quilt
Obverse of handle bears word "ALABAMA" and depicts an eagle, iron ore miner, cotton bale and bolls; the reverse of the handle depicts various Indian motifs, including a tipi, canoe, and peace pipe. The bowl of spoon, washed in gold, depicts Sloss Furnaces.