Pieced quilt made by Elizabeth Salter Smith

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Pieced quilt made by Elizabeth Salter Smith with nine (9) blocks all hand-pieced. Each block consists of a different design and different fabrics and colors, with a mixture of solids and prints. The pieced blocks are not uniform in size, so the maker has added strips and portions of other cut up pieced blocks to create the quilt top. Most of the added strips are a green novelty print fabric with small anthropomorphic rabbits on it. The quilt is backed with a gold, blue, and red small-scale paisley print that is turned to the front and hand sewn to form the binding. A thin layer of batting is placed between the top and back, with the layers stitched together using hand-quilting in white thread with a mixture of vertical and diagonal lines. A strip of Velcro is sewn to the back of one end for hanging.

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