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Quilt, Pieced Le Moyne Star

Dateca. 1875

Maker Jane Pelton Burdon (Mrs. Theophilus R. Hyde) (b. 1858) b. 1858

OriginAmerica, Connecticut, Waterbury or New York

MediumPlain and printed cottons

DimensionsOH: 97 1/2" X OW: 87" (248 x 221 cm)

Credit LineGift of Beatrix T. Rumford

Object number2006.609.6

DescriptionThis is a rectangular quilt pieced from white and printed cottons in a pattern of 440 repeating 8-pointed stars measuring 4 ½" in diameter each. It is backed with white cotton, with thin batting, probably cotton. The edging consists of folded cotton pattern-woven tape. The bedcover is quilted in approximately nine stitches per inch in random squares, diamonds, and parallel lines.

Label TextFour hundred and forty eight-pointed stars consisting each of eight diamonds were used in the construction of this charming pieced quilt. The swatches represent a large array of colorful printed cottons. The bedcover is quilted in approximately nine stitches per inch in random squares, diamonds, and parallel lines. Made by Jane Pelton Burdon, the quilt descended through the family to her great grandniece who donated it to the museum.

Art of the Quilter:
This quilt followed its maker to her adulthood in Connecticut, but stitching began in New York. Jane Pelton Burdon was the daughter of Jane Pelton and William Burdon, a Scottish immigrant and owner of the Brooklyn Foundry and Steam Engine Manufactory. Jane grew up in Brooklyn's Fourth Ward.

Jane pieced this variation on a Le Moyne Star quilt only a few years before marrying Theophilus Rodgers Hyde Jr. and moving to Waterbury, Connecticut. Her husband worked for the Scovill Manufacturing Company, known for their buttons, lamps, medals, and other brass products. This quilt, made of over 400 eight-pointed stars, could have been placed on a bed in the Hyde's three-story home on Pine Street built in 1893 and still standing today.Provenanceca. 1875, made by Jane Pelton Burdon (Waterbury, CT); 1925, passed by descent to Hazel Rogers Hyde [1881-1954] (Wilmington, DE); 1954, passed by descent to Lewis Rumford II [1905-1997] (Wilmington, DE); 1997, passed by descent to Beatrix T. Rumford (Lexington, VA)