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Quilt depicting Melrose Plantation by Clementine Hunter
- Created by
- Hunter, Clementine, American, ca. 1886 - 1988
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Melrose Plantation, American, founded 1832
- Date
- ca. 1965
- Medium
- cotton (fiber) , paper (fiber product) , thread and wool (hair)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 38 × 34 in. (96.5 × 86.4 cm)
- Description
- This quilt depicts several buildings on Melrose Plantation. In the center of the quilt is a large white house with a red chimney and black fabric used to indicate roof, windows, and doors. The house is rectangular with two round turrets at either end. In front of each turret is a human figure, a woman in an orange skirt on the right, and a woman in a green skirt on the left. Stylized trees and bushes flank the front and back of the building. The bottom half of the quilt depicts two structures, on the left a small white house with a black roof, one black window, one door, and a red chimney. On the right is a smaller structure with a large overhanging black roof and black support beams. The walls are white, with two narrow black and light blue doors. Each building is flanked by stylized trees. The artist's initials are sewn onto the lower right corner, with the "C" backwards.
- Place made
- Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- quilts
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Collection of Sabra Brown Martin
- Object number
- 2017.68.16
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Cane River Art Corporation
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Freedom Quilt
- Created by
- Telfair, Jessie Bell Williams, American, 1913 - 1986
- Date
- ca. 1975
- On ViewCulture/Fourth Floor, 4 050
- Exhibition
- Cultural Expressions
- Medium
- cotton
- Dimensions
- H x W: 73 × 87 in. (185.4 × 221 cm)
- Caption
- Quilter Jessie Telfair was inspired to make this quilt in the mid-1970’s as an expression and memorialization of her experiences during the Civil Rights Movement. In the 1960s, Telfair was encouraged by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s efforts to register African American voters in Southwest Georgia. Telfair decided to register to vote. When her employers learned of her actions, they fired her from her job as a cafeteria worker at an elementary school in her small community of Parrott, Georgia. The quilt is an affirmation of her personal freedom as well as a statement about the freedoms guaranteed to all American citizens. Telfair later made two more quilts of nearly identical design, one is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum in New York and the other is at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
- Description
- A pieced and appliqued cotton quilt designed and quilted by Jessie Telfair. The quilt consists of bold blue block letters on red squares, arranged to spell the word [FREEDOM] along a horizontal axis, repeated in six rows. Smaller white square blocks separate the red squares. The backing is white.
- Place made
- Parrott, Terrell County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Textiles-Quilts
- Type
- quilts
- Topic
- American South
- Art
- Civil rights
- Craftsmanship
- Folklife
- Freedom
- Resistance
- Rural life
- Suffrage
- Textile design
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Virginia Dwan
- Object number
- 2017.40
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
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Quilted petticoat
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1830s-1840s; repurposed 1890s
- On ViewConcourse 3, C3 053
- Exhibition
- Slavery and Freedom
- Medium
- cotton fabric and cotton batting
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (On form): 37 × 24 × 20 in. (94 × 61 × 50.8 cm)
- Description
- This quilted petticoat may have been made from a repurposed wholecloth bedcover or refashioned from a once larger skirt. The front of the textile is faced with a small-scale printed floral vine design in white, yellow, purple, and red blossoms with green leaves on a light brown ground. The back of the textile is faced with an orange striped cotton. A layer of cotton batting was quilted between the front and back facing fabrics. It was hand quilted with off-white cotton thread in an offset grid pattern with a leafy vine border design. The floral printed fabric was turned and hand stitched to the back fabric as binding. The fabrics and quilted motifs indicate it was probably made in the 1830s or 1840s. The fabric may have been imported from France.
- The cut textile is turned under and the edges left raw at the interior waistline of the petticoat and the cotton batting can be seen along these raw edges. A small piece of printed cotton with a small-scale repeating design of purple flowers on a yellow ground is stitched at the interior proper left front waist. A long length of off-white cotton twill tape is attached around the back waist to hold gathers in the petticoat. The twill tape remains loose on the front so that the front of the petticoat has a flat silhouette. The petticoat is closed by tying these loose lengths of twill tape at the front waist.The hem of the petticoat is the original binding of the bedcover and the quilted vine border of the bedcover is turned horizontal around the bottom of the petticoat. The textile was probably repurposed into its current form as a petticoat between the 1870s and 1890s due to the flat front and gathered back waist.
- Place used
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Clothing-Historical
- Type
- quilts
- petticoats
- Topic
- Clothing and dress
- Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
- Slavery
- U.S. History, 1865-1921
- U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Aaron and Maureen Robinson and Family
- Object number
- 2014.180.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions