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Georgiana Roney Wylie

Cross-Stitched “Snowflake” Quilt

1929-1959

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Georgiana Roney Wylie

Cross-Stitched “Snowflake” Quilt

1929-1959

Physical Qualities Cotton ground, cotton embroidery threads and flat metallic strips, 93 x 77 in. (236.2 x 195.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of David Wylie Wilson, Toronto, ON.
Object Number 2008.107
Quilt embroidered - cross-stitched - in sage green and beige cotton thread with metallic gold thread in center areas of a large "snowflake" pattern used throughout. There are 12 of these within a central rectangular area with 6 quatrefoils between and half-quatrefoils at edges of central area. Outside of this narrowly banded rectangle are "snowflakes" and half-quatrefoils. Creme colored ground is quilted in "snowflake" pattern. Narrow bound edges in tan.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; David Wylie Wilson and Suzanne Wilson Brady, Toronto, ON by descent; Ruth Caroline Wylie by descent; Georgiana Roney Wylie (1890-1977).

Inscribed: Stitched: G. Wylie on inside edge

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Georgiana Roney Wylie

1889–1976

American, 1890-1977
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