Top Hat

United States

  • Titles Top Hat (Descriptive)
  • Medium beaver
  • Dimensions 12 3/4 × 6 9/16 in. (32.4 × 16.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Cole, 1982.160
  • Work Type top hat
  • Classification Costume

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Large, rectangular yo-yo quilt or coverlet made from round pieces of cotton-polyester blend fabrics in a wide variety of patterns and colors, including gingham, houndstooth, stripes, plaids, floral and geometric prints, polka dots, and plain colors, that have long stitches along their turned-under outer edges, which are pulled to form small rosettes or discs, each hand sewn side by side with red thread into rows to form the quilt, no batting and no backing.
Biscuit quilt made by Nora Ezell's sister-in-law, older sister of Nora's husband Joseph
Large quilt of printed and plain cotton in a variation of the Log Cabin pattern, hand stitched and pieced with on the top a grid of squares on an angle of alternating solid teal green and colorful printed cotton, these each comprised of a smaller square and two rectangular pieces placed together in an L, the printed cotton in geometric, stripped, floral, and paisley patterns in shades of black, pink, blue, green, beige and brown, as well as plain white, the back of a woven unbleached cotton, edged in the same solid teal green cotton.
Set includes goose-beak pitcher, flask, and a footed bowl