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Title	Hexagon quilt piecing, diagram (undated)
Creator	Unknown
Date.Original	Mid 19th c.
Description	Hand drawn hexagon quilt piecing diagram on ruled paper. Several of the hexagons have handwritten notes denoting specific color, the notes read "some light colour", "blue or such colour", "pink or red or some gay colour" written twice, "black velvet", "make center blocks lighter than the outside", "your darkest silk for the outside so as to make the block distinct", and "you may have as many colours as you please or as great a variety only darker than the center ones".
Subject.LCSH	Pattern design; Quilting--Patterns--Design
Subject.TGM	Patterns (Design elements) Paper Quilting
Subject.AAT	composition (artistic arrangement) quilting hexagons
Subject.Local	Hasbrouck family
Personal Name	Hasbrouck, Sarah Maria, 1823-1858 Hasbrouck, Ann Bevier, 1827-1906 Hasbrouck, Louisa, 1831-1867 Hasbrouck, Laura Tallmadge, 1834-1925
Location	Gardiner - Ulster County - New York
HRVH Topic	Arts & Entertainment Daily Life Women
Language	eng
Format.Original	pencil and ink on ruled paper; 9.168 x 9.864 in. (23.29 x 25.05 cm.)
Resource Type	Physical Object
Source	Locust Lawn Farm
Donor	Young, Annette Innis, 1885-1975
Resource Identifier	hexagon_pattern.jpg
Publisher.Digital	Historic Huguenot Street
Date.Digital	2008-05-02
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Exhibit Homepage	http://www.hrvh.org/exhibit/notiontosew
Digital Collection	A Notion to Sew
Holding Institution	Locust Lawn Farm
Contact Information	2683 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 http://www.lgny.org/
Rights	Locust Grove holds copyright and reproduction rights. Permission for reproduction required.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTEK 9800XL; Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; 24 bit color; 600 ppi; RGB; 48,735,612 bytes: 4960x3274 pixels; no compression
Metadata Creator	Hurlburt, Ashley

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