Album Quilt

Art Institute of Chicago

Album Quilt

Made by the ladies of the United Presbyterian Church in West Alexandria, Pennsylvania, for their pastor, Rev. James Chauncey Murch (d. 1879)

Date
1857
Medium
Cotton, plain weave, pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave, printed, embroidered in cotton threads in buttonhole and chain stitches; quilted; backed with cotton, plain weave
Culture
Pennsylvania
Department
Textiles
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

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Object type
AAT300014063

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