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Big Dipper Quilt

Big Dipper Quilt - Quilt
Accession #: 2990.1
Title: Big Dipper Quilt
Object Type: Quilt
Participants:
Physical Description: This quilt contains 299 pieced blocks. Each block consists of eight dark triangles and eight light triangles. The pieced blocks alternate with plain squares. There is an inner red border and an outer white border. The binding is red.
Description: Between 1900 and 1902, Renee Snider pieced this quilt from many late nineteenth-century cotton prints. Mrs. Snider lived on a homestead in Number 2 Canyon outside of Wenatchee, Washington, and died in childbirth soon after completing the top. In 1928, her sister-in-law, Trisha Moore, quilted and bound the quilt with the help of her children. They traced an oval platter and spoons for the quilting design; their outlines are clearly visible.
Category: Textiles
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Bedding (Furnishing)
Geographical Reference: Wenatchee (Washington->Chelan County)
Dimensions:
Object L x W 79 1/2 x 71 "
Materials/Techniques:
cotton (Material)
quilting (Technique)
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Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Evelyn J. Magnuson, 1984

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