{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"411"},"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 Cyril Irwin Nelson in honor of Robert Bishop, director (1977\u20131991), American Folk Art Museum"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1825"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1986    13    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1986.13.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Bears a green eight-pointed star (Variable Star) motif in the center surrounded by a brown background elaborately quilted with a heart and feather design. Front and backing turned in; feathered wreath with diamond quilting in the center of star; feathered heart with diamond quilting in the four corners and background filler of chevron quilting; border, pineapple? on one side floral motif.  On three side, diagonal lines as filler. whole-cloth"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Glazed wool"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":""},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/1848/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"1848"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Center Star Quilt"},"geographyCity":{"value":""},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["QUILT","Check for hearts.","For many years, late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century whole-cloth wool quilts were mistakenly referred to as \u201clinsey-woolseys.\u201d Today, however, it is understood that these bedcovers were not made of a homespun combination of linen and wool, as that term implies, but rather were usually sewn entirely of wool. Often the wool that was selected for textiles such as this Center Star Quilt was a professionally manufactured, glazed, worsted fabric known as \u201ccalimanco,\u201d which probably was imported from England. This quilt also exhibits elaborate quilting motifs that are typical of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century calimanco and silk quilts. The fruit and floral motifs seen here are similar to Jacobean crewel embroidery designs and may have been adapted from the crewelwork bed hangings that were popular in eighteenth-century America.Elizabeth V. Warren, \"Center Star Quilt,\" exhibition label from QUILTS: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Elizabeth V. Warren, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2010.","A whole-cloth quilt is not made from a single piece of fabric, as the name might imply; it simply means that the quilt is made from fabric of a single color. Although this bedcover has a pieced star in the center, it is categorized as part of the whole-cloth tradition because of its large size, early date, and the fact that it is made of large pieces of glazed wool, known as calimanco, in a center-medallion format. This textile exhibits the elaborate quilting motifs typically associated with calimanco quilts, including palmettes like those seen in the Indigo Calimanco Quilt. The meandering vine that frames the four sides is virtually identical to the quilted border in the Tree of Life Whitework Quilt. Although the Center Star Quilt was made slightly later than the whitework quilt, they share several additional quilting motifs, including pomegranates. These bedcovers, however, do not share a single pattern; instead, they draw upon design conventions of the period. But the deep, saturated colors of this bedcover root it in the past, while the whitework participates in the neoclassical taste that emerged at the turn of the century, breaking the visual unification that had characterized the decorative arts in New England for nearly two centuries.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Center Star Quilt,\" in American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 299."]},"bibliography":{"label":"Bibliography","value":""},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Textiles"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":""},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"152500"},"geographyState":{"value":""},"markings":{"label":"Markings","value":"none"},"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":["QUILT","Check for hearts.","For many years, late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century whole-cloth wool quilts were mistakenly referred to as \u201clinsey-woolseys.\u201d Today, however, it is understood that these bedcovers were not made of a homespun combination of linen and wool, as that term implies, but rather were usually sewn entirely of wool. Often the wool that was selected for textiles such as this Center Star Quilt was a professionally manufactured, glazed, worsted fabric known as \u201ccalimanco,\u201d which probably was imported from England. This quilt also exhibits elaborate quilting motifs that are typical of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century calimanco and silk quilts. The fruit and floral motifs seen here are similar to Jacobean crewel embroidery designs and may have been adapted from the crewelwork bed hangings that were popular in eighteenth-century America.Elizabeth V. Warren, \"Center Star Quilt,\" exhibition label from QUILTS: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Elizabeth V. Warren, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2010.","A whole-cloth quilt is not made from a single piece of fabric, as the name might imply; it simply means that the quilt is made from fabric of a single color. Although this bedcover has a pieced star in the center, it is categorized as part of the whole-cloth tradition because of its large size, early date, and the fact that it is made of large pieces of glazed wool, known as calimanco, in a center-medallion format. This textile exhibits the elaborate quilting motifs typically associated with calimanco quilts, including palmettes like those seen in the Indigo Calimanco Quilt. The meandering vine that frames the four sides is virtually identical to the quilted border in the Tree of Life Whitework Quilt. Although the Center Star Quilt was made slightly later than the whitework quilt, they share several additional quilting motifs, including pomegranates. These bedcovers, however, do not share a single pattern; instead, they draw upon design conventions of the period. But the deep, saturated colors of this bedcover root it in the past, while the whitework participates in the neoclassical taste that emerged at the turn of the century, breaking the visual unification that had characterized the decorative arts in New England for nearly two centuries.Stacy C. Hollander, \"Center Star Quilt,\" in American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 299."]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1815"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1815\u20131825"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, July 15, 1987 - Friday, September 4, 1987","exhibitionEndISODate":"1990-06-03","exhibitionID":"57","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1987-07-15","exhibitionBeginDate":"1987","exhibitionTitle":"Life in the New World","exhibitionEndDate":"1990"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, May 4, 1996 - Sunday, September 8, 1996","exhibitionEndISODate":"1996-09-08","exhibitionID":"82","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1996-05-04","exhibitionBeginDate":"1996","exhibitionTitle":"An American Treasury","exhibitionEndDate":"1996"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Saturday, February 27, 1993 - Sunday, September 12, 1993","exhibitionEndISODate":"1993-09-12","exhibitionID":"313","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"1993-02-27","exhibitionBeginDate":"1993","exhibitionTitle":"Bob Bishop","exhibitionEndDate":"1993"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - Friday, July 8, 2011","exhibitionEndISODate":"2011-07-08","exhibitionID":"181","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2010-10-05","exhibitionBeginDate":"2010","exhibitionTitle":"Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum","exhibitionEndDate":"2011"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Thursday, July 11, 2002 - Sunday, January 5, 2003","exhibitionEndISODate":"2003-01-26","exhibitionID":"73","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2002-07-11","exhibitionBeginDate":"2002","exhibitionTitle":"American Anthem","exhibitionEndDate":"2003"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"100 1/2 × 98\""}}]}