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Right, Rose and Bud Quilt, 88" x 92", c. mid-1800s, by Elizabeth Ruth Colburn of Pittsford, Vermont.
Below right, Diamond Medallion Quilt Top, 92" x 99", 1854, by Mary Jane Carr of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Photos courtesy Shelburne Museum
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Many antique quilts are admired, but those with a documented history are prized by collectors and historians alike.
Through October 31, an exhibition entitled "25 American Quilts and the Women Who Made Them" will give visitors to Shelburne Museum a chance to examine works with a recorded history, giving a glimpse into the lives of the quiltmakers of another generation. The new exhibit includes album, applique, chintz applique, pieced, and whole-cloth quilts made between 1800 and 1950. The amount of information known about each quilt varies, but signatures and inscriptions on the fronts and backs of the quilts either identify or provide hints about the makers and why the quilt was made. The quilts in the display, organized by Henry Joyce, chief curator at Shelburne, were made primarily by women in New England, Ohio, and the Mid-Atlantic states.
Shelburne Museum is located 7 miles south of Burlington on U.S. Rt. 7. For more information, phone 802-985-3346; info@shelburnemuseum.org; website www.shelburnemuseum.org.
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