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Slashed Star Quilt
Sara Maartz
Photographed by Gavin Ashworth
Slashed Star Quilt
Slashed Star Quilt
Sara Maartz
Photographed by Gavin Ashworth
Slashed Star Quilt Sara Maartz Photographed by Gavin Ashworth
Record Details

Slashed Star Quilt

Artist ((dates unknown))
Date1872
Place/RegionLancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumCotton
Dimensions82 x 76"
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Weinstein
Accession number2007.15.1
CopyrightThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.
Description

Slashed Star is a variation of the better-known Mariner’s Compass design. Pattern names tend to vary over time and place, and the names by which we know most designs today are those that were published in periodicals or assigned by pattern companies during the heyday of the early-twentieth-century quilt revival period.

Stacy C. Hollander, "Slashed Star Quilt," exhibition label for QUILTS: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2010.

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