Quilt
Kings County Museum of New Brunswick
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| Object Name: | Quilt |
| Artist/Maker: | Keizah Snider, Frances (Fannie) |
| Object Type: | Confederation |
| Category: | Furnishings |
| Sub-category: | Bedding |
| Material: | fibre, cotton fibre, silk fibre, taffeta silk, satin |
| Technique: | embroidered |
| Accession Number: | 1979.028 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1864 C |
| Description: | The Confederation Conference Quilt is made in the crazy quilt design with blue weighted silk edging on all sides. The quilt is made in five strips of four blocks each. Three of the blocks are 15.5 inches in width and the fourth is 7.5 inches wide. The pieces are embroidered together using various stitches. The quilt is irregularly quilted of cotton backing and then a material somewhat like polished cotton. Various materials make up the quilt such as watered silk, gabardine, velvet and taffeta. |
| Narrative: | A crazy quilt, very elaborately embroidered. It has pale green ruffled edge. Made in 1864 during the Charlottetown Confederation meeting. The years 1864 and 1896 are embroidered on it. The latter was when some pieces were replaced. Made in 1864 while the Confederation meetings were being held supposedly from the dresses the ladies wore to the Confederation balls. The quilt was made from scraps of the material that Fannie used to make dresses for the ladies who attended the Confederation balls in 1864 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Fannie was the daughter of Martin Snider and Abigail Leggett, formerly of Dutch Valley, Sussex, New Brunswick. Born March 11, 1840 in Scarborough, Ontario, she married Henry Samuel Parlee of Smith Creek, Kings County, New Brunswick, on October 18, 1864. Fannie and Henry had three children, Martin Herbert, who practiced law in Hampton; Harvey Bernard and Caroline Augusta, who married Harry Porter. Fannie died July 18, 1915 at the age of 75 years. She and Henry are buried in Gosline Cemetery, Smith Creek, Kings County, New Brunswick. |
| Width: | 160 |
| Unit-Linear: | cm |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Marks/Labels: | Embroidered "1864" and "1896". "Fannie", "1864" and "1895" are embroidered on the quilt with a profile embroidered beside "1895". |
| Department: | Kings County Museum |
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| Institution City: | Hampton |
| Institution Province: | New Brunswick |
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