Pennsylvania Dutch woven coverlet, by C. Wiand, owned by Anne Swindlehurst

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Title Pennsylvania Dutch woven coverlet, by C. Wiand, owned by Anne Swindlehurst
Creator Utah Quilt Guild
Contributor Wiand, C.; Swindlehurst, Anne Slick; Rickert, Sophia Wenner; Slick, Eva J.; Slick, Emma Rickert
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1851
Date Digital 2012-07-23
Spatial Coverage Allentown (Pa.); Lehigh County (Pa.); Beaver (Utah); Beaver County (Utah)
Subject Coverlets; Quilting--Utah--History; Quilts--Utah--History
Description Image of a Pennsylvania Dutch woven coverlet created in 1851 by C. Wiand. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by Anne Swindlehurst as part of the Utah Quilt Guild's documentation days held from 1988-1994. Quiltmaker was perhaps a professional weaver. It was a custom to present all Pennsylvania Dutch (German) Brides with a woven coverlet for their trousseau. Sophia Wenner married richard Rickert, they moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1855, and she died in 1864, leaving the coverlet to Emma Rickert Slick of Aurora, Illinois. Owner was grandchild of Emma, inherited it
Collection Number and Name 1878; The Utah Quilt Heritage Records
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
Rights
Relation http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv99929
File Name 1878_04_06_BE1.pdf
Conversion Specifications Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm
ARK ark:/87278/s65t4c1v
Setname uum_uqhr
ID 1062303
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65t4c1v
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