Wholecloth quilt

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This chintz quilt is notched at its bottom corners to accommodate bedposts. The quill is bound with cotton tape striped in tan, white, black, and blue. The chintz top fabric is decorated with floral trails, roller printed in red and block overprinted in blue, yellow, and green on a tan ground. The backing chintz has a flora/ stripe, roller printed in red and brown. The piece is quilted overall with a shell pattern.

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