Quilt, Flying Geese pattern

Quilt, Flying Geese pattern

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The top has pieced rows alternating with bands of chintz. The pieced rows are quilted in chevrons, while the chintz rows are diamond quilted. The border is quilted with diagonal parallel lines. The Flying Geese triangles are cut from a variety of small cotton prints, primarily in shades of browns and reds. The light brown chintz used for the bands and border is printed with rose vines. The quilt has a plain white woven cotton backing and a tape binding striped in white, brown, blue, and green.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.