Quilt, Spiderweb pattern

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is an all cotton pieced quilt in a repeating block pattern. Each block contains an eight point star that has been pieced of small strips of various printed cottons. The background fabric of the blocks alternates between a red fabric and a white and pink fabric. There is cotton batting between the top and back layers.

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