A quilt of 10,875 pieces and 169,700 hand stitches
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I'm involved with a local historic preservation group here in my county, and we had an open house yesterday at the historic antebellum house that is the central structure of the park, which is the Shoppach House. One of the quilts we had on display there was the one shown below, and it is my favorite in our collection.
It was made by Xalisco Stribling Brents in the 1880s, so is about 120 years old. She was born in 1837 in Georgia, so would have been about 40 when she made this. She died in 1910 at the age of 73 here in Saline County, Arkansas.
The documentation we received with the quilt says that there are 10,875 pieces in the quilt and 169,700 stitches. I doubt that number is exactly accurate due to the roundness of the numbers, and am guessing someone counted the pieces and stitches in one block and then did the math considering the number of blocks. Nevertheless, it is a stunning quilt.
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_3.jpg[/IMG]
I laid a set of keys on the quilt to give a sense of scale of the pieces. They're tiny! :shock:
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_4.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_5.jpg[/IMG]
It was made by Xalisco Stribling Brents in the 1880s, so is about 120 years old. She was born in 1837 in Georgia, so would have been about 40 when she made this. She died in 1910 at the age of 73 here in Saline County, Arkansas.
The documentation we received with the quilt says that there are 10,875 pieces in the quilt and 169,700 stitches. I doubt that number is exactly accurate due to the roundness of the numbers, and am guessing someone counted the pieces and stitches in one block and then did the math considering the number of blocks. Nevertheless, it is a stunning quilt.
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_3.jpg[/IMG]
I laid a set of keys on the quilt to give a sense of scale of the pieces. They're tiny! :shock:
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_4.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/...tribling_5.jpg[/IMG]
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Originally Posted by Loretta
By the way, how do you pronounce the makers first name? I have not seen that name before.
Also, I forgot to mention that we had a quilt appraiser come through one of our open houses a couple of years ago and she was floored by the quilt. She said it was easily worth 4 figures. Everyone who comes through the open houses always gasp when they get to this room and see this quilt.
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Originally Posted by kwhite
That is beautiful. Don't they worry about it being so close to the window? That would worry me.
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