Double-Faced Hourglass Quilt

Object Details

Date
20th century
Medium
cotton, polyester, batting
Dimensions
61 1/4 × 43 1/4 in. (155.6 × 109.9 cm)
Cite As
Dupree Collection of the African American Holiness and Pentecostal Movements
Caption
This double-faced hourglass quilt, also known as a quarter-square triangle quilt, offers a colorful lesson in geometry. To construct each of the hand-sewn quilt’s eight-eight square blocks, four smaller squares of fabric are folded in half lengthwise to form isosceles triangles. The triangles are then stitched on the long edges into a square with the points meeting in the center. Sewn together, the square blocks create quilt that looks the same on both sides. The double-faced quilt’s fabrics feature a variety of colors, textures, and patterns, including solids, stripes, and plaids in heavyweight cottons, polyesters, and cotton-polyester blends. It is one of four quilts from the Sherry Sherrod DuPree Collection (acma-06-041), which documents the history of African American Holiness and Pentecostal movements (2003.0018.0002, 2003.0018.0003, 2003.0018.0004).
Accession Number
2003.0018.0005
Type
quilt
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Anacostia Community Museum Collection
Data Source
Anacostia Community Museum
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dl88ed67cfd-5a01-4cc7-9cb0-fdffdce932f1
Record ID
acm_2003.0018.0005
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