By: Tandy Hersh
My purpose in this paper is to present a “micro” analysis of this quilt. Sally Garoutte’s paper “Early Colonial Quilts in a Bedding Context” in UNCOVERINGS 1980 was a “macro” analysis in comparison, the study of a large number of quilts mentioned in wills and inventories in given areas and times. I will describe and analyze one glazed wool quilt with the date September 13, 1809, and initials MRMc quilted along one edge,
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