Hexagon top with block printed panel

Maker:

Mrs Madder or Mrs Beetie

Date:

1800 - 1820

Hexagon mosaic patchwork made from printed and plain cottons arranged in rosettes of the same cottons surrounded by plain white. In the centre is an octagonal block printed panel of with a floral arrangement. This is surrounded by concentric rows of hexagons before the rosette arrangements. The top is unfinished and still contains the paper templates, which have been recycled from various handwritten and printed documents. Some of the dates in the papers are ‘1789’ and ‘1790’. On the reverse is also a handwritten note which has been sewn to the centre, which reads ‘This quilt belonged to Mrs Eliza Parkinson, wife of Dr. James Parkinson of Tudor House, Dalkey, Co. Dublin. She died in 1871 aged 84. It was probably made by her mother Mrs Madder or her grandmother Mrs Beetie’.