Exhibitions

Pieced Cotton Album Quilt

July 1, 1999 – January 19, 2000

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

3rd Floor, West Wing, Textiles Hall, American Quilt Legacy Case

See on Map Floor Plan

This album quilt (1846), made for Merinda Shedd Wright of Washington, New Hampshire, is a 9-patch pattern of 96 blocks with signatures of friends and family in each patch block.