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Collection Item: Doll's Bedcover
Basic info
- Collection
- Costume and Textiles
- Object name
- Doll's bedcover
- Object category
- Textile crafts
- Dolls and soft toys
- Object subcategory
- Patchwork and quilting
- Doll's accessories
- Creators
- Pritt, Sarah Elizabeth (Stitcher)
- Pritt, Mary Ann (Stitcher)
- ()
- Description
- The cover is made from roller-printed dress cottons, using tiny hexagons to create the grandmother's flower garden pattern.The cover is interlined with white muslin, and backed with pieced white cotton. Only the edges are quilted, and here the hexagons are outlined in a single line of stitching.
- Production date start
- 1830
- Production date end
- 1840
- Period
- Georgian
- William IV
- Victorian
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : BA623
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.812
- 2.43
- 2.83
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 10000065
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Cotton (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 62.0 cm
- Whole width 49.5 cm
- Patch diameter 2.5 cm
Production
- Creators
- Pritt, Sarah Elizabeth (Stitcher)
- Pritt, Mary Ann (Stitcher)
- ()
- Location
- London
- London
- Technique
- Pieced
- Patchwork (hexagon)
- Patchwork (grandmother's flower garden)
- Quilted
