Hand-pieced and quilted cotton front, cotton flour sack back, Traditional cotton quilt, circa 1930. 74 x 67 inches (188.0 x 170.2 cm). In overall very good condition, colors and patterns are crisp. Areas of discoloration throughout, primarily to reverse.
Exhibited: The Webber Center Gallery, 2006; Literature: African-American Quilts of Florida from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne LeCount Tyson II, Ocala, Florida, 2006, p. 21.
The first decades of the twentieth century saw a renewed interest in quiltmaking. This resurgence was influenced by both the nostalgia of the Colonial Revival, and after 1929, by the advent of the Great Depression, when making a quilt from leftover scraps of fabric seemed a particularly appealing act of thriftiness. A design that is still made today, the schoolhouse pattern first became popular in the 1890s, in the wake of remembrances of the disappearing one-room “little red schoolhouse”.
Hand-pieced and quilted cotton front, cotton flour sack back, Traditional cotton quilt, circa 1930. 74 x 67 inches (188.0 x 170.2 cm). In overall very good condition, colors and patterns are crisp. Areas of discoloration throughout, primarily to reverse.
Exhibited: The Webber Center Gallery, 2006; Literature: African-American Quilts of Florida from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne LeCount Tyson II, Ocala, Florida, 2006, p. 21.
The first decades of the twentieth century saw a renewed interest in quiltmaking. This resurgence was influenced by both the nostalgia of the Colonial Revival, and after 1929, by the advent of the Great Depression, when making a quilt from leftover scraps of fabric seemed a particularly appealing act of thriftiness. A design that is still made today, the schoolhouse pattern first became popular in the 1890s, in the wake of remembrances of the disappearing one-room “little red schoolhouse”.