Object Details
- Description
- Marion Frick, a dressmaker, constructed this “Log Cabin” quilt in the “Barn Raising” pattern. The quilt has samples of many different silks; plain, pattern-woven, ribbed striped, plaid, dotted, and watered. Possibly she was able to amass the many silk scraps from dresses that she made.
- The parlor throw is both hand and machine sewn. The 3/8-inch strips of silk are pieced in 3½-inch blocks. A 3¾-inch red silk border is machine stitched. The lining is red twilled cotton, hand quilted, with an inner lining of loosely-woven cotton. Diagonal grid quilting pattern was used for the lining and the front and back are turned in and machine-stitched through all layers.
- Marion Frick was born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1829, the daughter of John Frick and Anna Elizabeth Gotshall. She never married, but worked as a dressmaker and lived with her sister’s family. She died in October 1908 and is buried in the Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Frick, Marian
- date made
- 1870-1890
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Edwin A. Schoen
- Physical Description
- fabric, silk, cotton (overall material)
- thread, cotton, silk (overall material)
- filling, cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 70 in x 69 in; 178 cm x 175 cm
- Object Name
- quilt
