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Object number79.21.1
Artist (born 1829)
Date1850-1870
MediumCotton
Credit LineGift of Helen C. Schorr
DescriptionHandsewn quilt features twelve green and brown stemmed flower groupings in an intertwined appliqued floral pattern with brown borders. Hand-quilted at eight to ten stitches per inch. No filling in the quilt.Dimensions80 in. (203.2 cm)
Historical NotesMade by donor Helen C. Schorr's great grandmother, Catherine Decker Mayer. Catherine Decker Mayer is said to have made this quilt while waiting to give birth to her sixth child, Casper P. Mayer. Family lore says she had a hard time sleeping when she was pregnant and spent a lot of time quilting. Catherine was born in France in 1829, emigrated to the United States in the mid-1840s, and lived in Bull Run (now the West Mifflin area) in the 1850s.
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