Quilt: Wheel pattern

Quilt: Wheel pattern

Handicraft

Quilts

Textile fabrics

This hand-pieced and hand-quilted quilt in the "Wheel" or "Sunburst" pattern was likely made by Rebecca Jane Pannell (1890-1925) of Jackson County, NC. Most of the print fabrics date from the late 1800's. The quilt thread is dark brown and the quilting pattern varies in each block from concentric circles to triangular rays to parallel lines. The backing is cotton fabric dyed dark brown using black walnut hulls. Home dyeing fabrics for quilts was common in rural North Carolina communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pannell, Rebecca Jane

Fisher-Monteith Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1880/1910

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crafts (art genres)

eng

StillImage

13285

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2006-3-01

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

75" x 66.5"(dimension)

Craft Revival