Wild Goose Chase, Medium: cotton Technique: pieced and sewn patchwork of printed and unprinted plain weave fabrics, Patchwork quilt top in 'Flying Geese' pattern in unbleached white cotton with roller-printed green cotton in a small-scale floral pattern. The white fabrics appear to be flour sacks or other wrapping fabrics, with fragments of printed text., W (on front) and YOMING (on back) in gold, FIN LONG CLO in blue and 36 YARDS on same square, E TH in blue (forming FINE LONG CLOTH), RAFT A in blue, type similar to FINE LONG CLOTH, G (on front), USA, 1825–1850, embroidery & stitching

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