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This is a square patterned quilt bedcover. The bedcover is made of squares of plain and patterned cotton fabric, the squares are feather stitched together and the whole quilt has machine stitched diagonal quilting lines. No history is known about the quilt.

1 bedcover: textile

MERL Handwritten form - ‘BEDCOVER (PATCHWORK) // Domestic- Furnishings- Textiles // 64/190 // via Royal Albert Memorial Museum // 64/190 square patterned quilt. Squares c5’’x 5’’, machine sewn + feather-stitched together.’, Letter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum to MERL, 23 April 1964 – 'Just after I has written to you yesterday, I received by post and quite unexpectedly another patchwork quilt - very rural - squares about 5x5 incs, machine sewn and feather stitched together. Would you like this one also. There is no history. [...]', MERL Handwritten form - ‘BEDCOVER (Quilt patchwork) // 64/190 // DOMESTIC Furnishings Textiles // 60/9145 // via Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon. // [pencil sketch] Cotton. // CONDITION: Faded. Oversewing split in some places // Materials - Plain and patterned cotton. Pattern - 'Jacobean' chintz and flower designs. Plains colours - red, green, yellow, pink and pale pink. // 6 inch squares - each quilted with thin padding and diagonal stitching. // Squares joined together - oversewn and feather stitching over lines of squares on right side - cream silk. // Quilting - diagonal lines are machine stitched. // Padding - cotton wadding.’

Bedcover, Quilt

Stitched, Patchwork, Quilted