Wholecloth calamanco quilt

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The top of this quilt is of a rust-colored glazed wool, and the back is of a coarsely woven gold cotton. The top is made of three panels of fabric, the widest g7G inches. The piece is quilted with a central area of quatrefoils, a feather-vine border, and pyramids of shells.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art