Record #:

1991

Author(s):

Gebel, Carol Williams

Abstract:

The North Carolina Museum of History has a collection of thirteen pre-Civil War quilts, including examples of trapunto and strippy quilting, that belonged to Mary Eliza Pittman, who lived at Cool Spring Plantation in Edgecombe County.

Source:

North Carolina Humanities (NoCar H 1 N66), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Spring/Summer 1994, p79-89, bibl, f

Subject(s):

Pittman, Mary Eliza Battle Dancy, 1829-1905; Cool Spring Plantation (Edgecombe County)