Wool quilt with hand embroidered details

Source catalog description

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 primarily from wool clothing fabrics with some synthetics or blends mixed in. The center of the quilt consists of regularly sized rectangles in various colored muted tones of wool clothing fabrics. On one outer side irregular pieces are sewn together like a crazy quilt. On the other side is a large piece of dark blue woven stripe fabric, with some smaller rectangular blocks in multiple colors and fabrics on either side. The other two edges are formed from long rectangular pieces of fabric as thinner borders. The seams of the blocks in the center and the wide borders have hand embroidered detail in cream and red thread. The quilt is backed with a blue, white, and pink woven stripe fabric. There is no binding, with the front and back turned under and seamed.

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