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Broken Dishes Quilt - Broken dishes patterned quilt made from triangular pieces of vibrantly colored and patterned pieces of silk. Maroon silk/cotton blend backing.
2019.23.5

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Broken Dishes Quilt - Broken dishes patterned quilt made from triangular pieces of vibrantly colored and patterned pieces of silk. Maroon silk/cotton blend backing.
2019.23.4

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Bubble Quilt - 'Bubble' quilt made from stuffed pieces of vibrantly colored and patterned silk. Inez Ripley, maker of the quilt, wrote on a piece of paper (located in the object sleeve of the accession binder) that the quilt was made by her, her mother (Mollie Truluck), and her grandmother (Jeanie Matthews) and completed in the 1930s. The quilt contains 1530 squares on its front, all made from old clothing the women cut up for the project. Floral silk backing.
2019.23.3

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Caesar's Crown Quilt - Handmade quilt. Yellow edging with large hand batted squares of white material with variations of Caesar's crown motif.
2017.13

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Cockspur Quilt - Cockspur applique quilt made from red flowers and green leaves on a white background.
2019.23.1

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Crazy Quilt Block - Crazy quilt block with a variety of cotton and flannel irregularly cut pieces. Handsewn to a backing of navy striped cotton.
2021.05.24

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Heironimus Window - Black and white photograph of a Heironimus window. A bedroom suite sits in the window, a window decorated with a flowered print valance and curtains adorns the wall behind the bed. A quilted bedspread covers the bed, a ruffled skirt hiding the bedframe. A small wooden bedside table sits closest to the window, a rufled lamp on its top. A sign at the end of the bed, hung at an angle reads: Everlast brings sunshine in your home
2019.20.19

Record Type: Photo
Historical Society of Western Virginia Newsletter - June 2010
Historical Society of Western Virginia June 2010 newsletter. Newsletter includes highlights of the Museums and Historical Society activities. The newsletter talks about the museum's upcoming Kegley Lecture with Bernard Marie and the Normandy Invasion. Also on the cover are photos from the quilt exhibition 'Domestic Arts for Use & Delight,' as well as photos from the recent member trip to Monticello. On the inside, there's a memo from Carolyn ...

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Historical Society of Western Virginia Newsletter - September/October 2010
Historical Society of Western Virginia September/October 2010 newsletter. Newsletter includes highlights of the Museums and Historical Society activities. The newsletter talks about the museum's two separate upcoming tours to the Blue Ridge Parkway and Danville, as well as upcoming exhibits and events, including the Flood of 85 exhibit, War & Pieces - a lecture by Navona Hart, a lecture on tips for finding, documenting, and protecting cemeteri...

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Hourglass quilt - Four square quilt with hourglass patterns in varying bits of cotton fabric. Quilt is hand stitched throughout, and has a yellow backing and edge.
2021.29.3

Record Type: Object
Hour Glass Quilt Block - Hour glass quilt block with white triangles and a gray striped cotton background decorated with black leaves and vines and white dotted outline of a circle. Unlined. Block is handsewn.
2021.05.26

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Hour Glass Quilt Block - Hour glass quilt block with white triangles and a red and natural cotton gingham background. Unlined. Block is handsewn.
2021.05.25

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Log Cabin Quilt Block - Double Log cabin quilt block. Block is handsewn and is unlined. Block is made up of a central red square with one set of blocks around the exterior, arranged with different fabrics running parallel to each other. One side is made of green and white checks, while the other is purple with abrstract designs. When reversed, the center of the fabric is red with small black and white dots. The shorter ends is a minimal patterned fabric with small flowers and brown dots on a whtie background. The longer ends are brown and white gingham.
2021.05.09

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Log Cabin Quilt Block - Double Log cabin quilt block. Block is handsewn and is unlined. Block is made up of four smaller log cabins to create one large square. Fabric on one side is alternating heavy cotton broadcloth and linen in parallel matching colors - the interior corners being gray and beige, with all exterior corners in red. Center of each cabin is black. On the other side of the quilt block is the same variation of four cabins to make a larger square in patterned cotton fabric. Visible basting stich running around the exterior of the solid color block.
2021.05.08

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Log Cabin Quilt Block - Double Log cabin quilt block. Block is handsewn and is unlined. Block is one large log cabin, with different corners of fabric. One side of the double log cabin is made of a dark brown jacquard style fabric, while the other is a textured light pink cotton. Center is black. On the other side is a center of striped white and black on a gray background. One corner is a brown patterned cotton of white and brown alternating diamonds. The other is a blue diagonal dotted lines on a white background. Basting stitches in a white are visible around the exterior.
2021.05.19

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Log Cabin Quilt Block - Double Log cabin quilt block. Block is handsewn and is unlined. Blocks one large log cabin, with alternating parallel colors. Fabric on one side is alternating checked fabric of red and black, and white and black, while the other side is alternating light blue linen and a white broadcloth. Center is a dark gray. The other side of double log cabin block is heavily patterned, again with alternating parallel sides. The center is a maroon colored fabric with white and red circles. One side of the blocks is an evergreen alternating with a red crosshatched cotton, while the other alternating sides are a brown and white moire style cotton and a white and gray striped linen. Basting stitches in a black are visible around the exterior.
2021.05.11

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Log Cabin Quilt Block - Double Log cabin quilt block. Block is handsewn and is unlined. Blocks one large log cabin, with alternating parallel colors. Fabric on one side is alternating heavy cotton broadcloth and linen in parallel matching colors. One side is alternating maroon and brown ribbed cotton, while the other is alternating light blue linen and royal blue broadcloth. The center is a dark gray. On the other side of the quilt block is a log cabin pattern in patterned cotton fabric, again with parrallel sides matching. One edge is a red and white checked fabric, alternating with a solid evergreen, while the other side is a lighly striped white and gray linen, alternating with a blue, white, and black striped fabric.
2021.05.10

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Log Cabin Quilt Block - Double Log cabin quilt block. Block is handsewn and is unlined. Blocks one large log cabin, with alternating parallel colors. Fabric on one side is alternating heavy cotton broadcloth and linen in parallel matching colors. One side is alternating maroon and dark blue, while the other is light blue, white, and beige linen. The center is a black. On the other side of the quilt block is a log cabin pattern in heavy patterned cotton fabric, again with parrallel sides matching. Visible basting stich running around the exterior of the solid color block.
2021.05.07

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Log Cabin Quilt Block - Double Log cabin quilt block. Block is handsewn and is unlined. Blocks one large log cabin, with different corners of fabric. One side of the double log cabin is made of a dark brown jacquard style fabric, while the other is a textured light pink cotton. Center is black. On the other side is a center of striped white and black on a gray background. One corner is a abstracted striped cotton in black, white and gray, with some pieces cut on the bias, others with the straightgrain, and others against the grain. The other is a combination of blue and white turkey feet and blue flowers on a white background. Basting stitches in a white are visible around the exterior.
2021.05.12

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Log Cabin Quilt Block - Double log cabin quilt block. Block is handsewn and unlined. Block is one large log cabin, with alternating parallel colors. Fabric on one side is alternating heavy cotton broadcloth and linen in parallel matching colors. One side is an alternating thin cotton green with a thin cotton red, whitel the other side is an alternating tan twill and blue and white striped cotton. The center is black. On the other side of the quilt block is a log cabin pattern in patterned cotton fabric, again with parrallel sides matching. One edge is a light brown fabric with black dots, alternating with a brown and white greek key fabric, one idge cut on the straight grain with the other cut on the bias. The exterior most pieces on both sides of this alternating pattern are pieced together with other smaller printed scraps of fabric. The opposite edges are made with alternating blue and white gingham fabric and white cotton broadcloth. The center of hte square is a dark red with small white and red circles. A somewhat visible basting stitch can be seen around the exterior.
2021.05.18

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