{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"406"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Clokey III"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1900"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1986    12    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1986.12.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Crazy patchwork of 24 block medallions in a 6x4 configuration and an oval medallion in the center with 51 figures of circus performers: equestrians, jockeys, jugglers, acrobats and show birds.  It contains only the herringbone stitch. Embroidery stitches: herringbone, satin, outline, feather, fishbone, French knots. Edges turned in, silk piping around blocks and medallions. Machine stitching around oval medallions."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Silks, including velvet, and cotton with cotton embroidery"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":""},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/1847/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"1847"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Equestrian Crazy Quilt"},"geographyCity":{"value":""},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Crazy patchwork of 24 block  medallions in a 6x4 configuration and an oval medallion in the center with 51 figures of circus performers: equestrians, jockeys, jugglers, acrobats and show birds.  It contains only the herringbone stitch. Embroidery stitches: herringbone, satin, outline, feather, fishbone, French knots. Edges turnied in, silk piping around blocks and medallions. Machine stitching around oval medallions.","Crazy Quilt","Anecdotal information supplied to the museum with this quilt stated that the maker was a member of a traveling circus from the southern tier of upper New York State. However, the designs may have been derived from either contemporary printed fabrics or other published sources. They may also have been adapted from Stevengraphs\u2014ribbon pictures woven in silk on jacquard looms. One set of Stevengraphs depicts racing horses with jockeys that do resemble one of the figures on this quilt. Stevengraphs were widely available and were sometimes incorporated into Crazy quilts.Elizabeth V. Warren, \"Equestrian Crazy Quilt,\" exhibition label from QUILTS: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Elizabeth V. Warren, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2010.","Anecdotal information supplied to the museum with this quilt stated that the maker was a member of a traveling circus from the southern tier of upper New York State, However, the designs may have been derived from either contemporary printed fabrics or other published sources. They may also have been adapted from Stevengraphs, ribbon pictures woven in silk on jacquard looms. One set of Stevengraphs depicted racing horses with jockeys that resemble one of the figures on this quilt. Stevengraphs were widely available and were sometimes incorporated into crazy quilts.  Recommend conservation.","The Japanese pavilion at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition has been widely credited with introducing the American public to Japanese arts and culture. Among other innovations attributed to this exposure, it has been theorized that the irregular look of Crazy quilts can be traced to Japanese print designs or to the \u201ccracked ice\u201d motif used on some Japanese porcelains.While many Crazy quilts do exhibit a characteristic randomness, a Crazy occasionally can be so ordered that it appears as if the maker were simply using the form as a fashionable background. This Equestrian Crazy Quilt, for example, is composed of twenty-four center medallion \u2013style Crazy patchwork blocks arranged around a larger medallion at the center. While the piecing in each block is random, there is an order and symmetry to the quilt that seems to stretch the definition of a Crazy. Considered together, the figures on the quilt appear to be performers in some kind of spectacle, although the exact event remains unknown. Anecdotal information supplied to the Museum with the quilt stated that the maker was a member of a traveling circus from the southern tier of upper New York State. The designs may have derived from either contemporary printed fabrics or other sources or from a type of woven ribbon known as a Stevengraph \u2013a ribbon picture woven in silk on a Jacquard loom. These commercially produced ribbons, whose designs included a set of racehorses with jockeys that resemble one of the figures on this quilt, were widely available and were sometimes incorporated into Crazy quilts.Elizabeth V. Warren, \"Equestrian Crazy Quilt,\" in Stacy C. Hollander, American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 352."]},"bibliography":{"label":"Bibliography","value":""},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Textiles"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":""},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"152496"},"geographyState":{"value":"New York"},"markings":{"label":"Markings","value":""},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"103","content":"Artist unidentified"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Textiles"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Crazy patchwork of 24 block  medallions in a 6x4 configuration and an oval medallion in the center with 51 figures of circus performers: equestrians, jockeys, jugglers, acrobats and show birds.  It contains only the herringbone stitch. Embroidery stitches: herringbone, satin, outline, feather, fishbone, French knots. Edges turnied in, silk piping around blocks and medallions. Machine stitching around oval medallions.","Crazy Quilt","Anecdotal information supplied to the museum with this quilt stated that the maker was a member of a traveling circus from the southern tier of upper New York State. However, the designs may have been derived from either contemporary printed fabrics or other published sources. They may also have been adapted from Stevengraphs\u2014ribbon pictures woven in silk on jacquard looms. One set of Stevengraphs depicts racing horses with jockeys that do resemble one of the figures on this quilt. Stevengraphs were widely available and were sometimes incorporated into Crazy quilts.Elizabeth V. Warren, \"Equestrian Crazy Quilt,\" exhibition label from QUILTS: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Elizabeth V. Warren, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2010.","Anecdotal information supplied to the museum with this quilt stated that the maker was a member of a traveling circus from the southern tier of upper New York State, However, the designs may have been derived from either contemporary printed fabrics or other published sources. They may also have been adapted from Stevengraphs, ribbon pictures woven in silk on jacquard looms. One set of Stevengraphs depicted racing horses with jockeys that resemble one of the figures on this quilt. Stevengraphs were widely available and were sometimes incorporated into crazy quilts.  Recommend conservation.","The Japanese pavilion at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition has been widely credited with introducing the American public to Japanese arts and culture. Among other innovations attributed to this exposure, it has been theorized that the irregular look of Crazy quilts can be traced to Japanese print designs or to the \u201ccracked ice\u201d motif used on some Japanese porcelains.While many Crazy quilts do exhibit a characteristic randomness, a Crazy occasionally can be so ordered that it appears as if the maker were simply using the form as a fashionable background. This Equestrian Crazy Quilt, for example, is composed of twenty-four center medallion \u2013style Crazy patchwork blocks arranged around a larger medallion at the center. While the piecing in each block is random, there is an order and symmetry to the quilt that seems to stretch the definition of a Crazy. Considered together, the figures on the quilt appear to be performers in some kind of spectacle, although the exact event remains unknown. Anecdotal information supplied to the Museum with the quilt stated that the maker was a member of a traveling circus from the southern tier of upper New York State. The designs may have derived from either contemporary printed fabrics or other sources or from a type of woven ribbon known as a Stevengraph \u2013a ribbon picture woven in silk on a Jacquard loom. These commercially produced ribbons, whose designs included a set of racehorses with jockeys that resemble one of the figures on this quilt, were widely available and were sometimes incorporated into Crazy quilts.Elizabeth V. Warren, \"Equestrian Crazy Quilt,\" in Stacy C. Hollander, American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. 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