Amish Quilt 2010

A beautifully crafted 19th century American Amish quilt from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, hand-stitched in the traditional 'Diamond in a Square Trip Around the World' pattern — one of the most enduring and artistically satisfying designs in the Amish quiltmaking tradition. Executed with the extraordinary precision and care that defines the finest Lancaster County Amish work, this quilt showcases the bold, saturated colors and graphic clarity that have made Amish quilts among the most collected American folk art objects in the world.

19th century Amish masterwork. The hand quilting — visible in the fine stitching patterns that cover every inch of the quilt surface — is itself a work of art, the quilting designs of feathers, cables, and crosshatching adding a dimensional quality that photographs can only suggest. American quilts represent one of the great folk art traditions of North America — textile objects that combined the practical necessity of warmth with an artistic ambition that was entirely the maker's own. The finest American quilts, particularly those from the Amish and Mennonite communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, are now collected with the same seriousness as paintings and prints, their bold geometric designs and extraordinary quality of hand stitching placing them at the apex of American decorative art.

Dimensions: 73" x 73"

Date of Manufacture: 4th Quarter of the 1800s

Place of Origin: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

Material: Cotton

Condition: Wear consistent with age and use

SKU: 2010