Gallery 3:
Baltimore Album Quilt, c. 1848

An unknown quilter used many different needleworking and artistic techniques in this quilt, including padding the border flowers, outlining forms with embroidery, appliquéing the fruit baskets, and using ink to create watermelon seeds.


  

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