Competition Quilt, United States, about 1895. Hand-pieced and hand-quilted cotton, silk, and linen with machine-stitched backing. Neusteter Textile Collection at the Denver Art Museum: Gift of Guido Goldman, 2008.406.

height: 70 1/4 in, 178.4350 cm; height: 71 1/2 in, 181.6100 cm; width: 66 1/4 in, 168.2750 cm; width: 66 in, 167.6400 cm; height: 70 in, 177.8000 cm; width: 66 in, 167.6400 cm

Tag at bottom right corner reads: #51 Quilt 70" x 66"

Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion

Textile Arts and Fashion-American

Surrounding the center Star of Bethlehem are fourteen borders of varying complexity. Numerous squares (each formed from two triangles) create the wider borders; the narrower ones have a streak-of-lightning motif or reciprocal triangles in two different colors. Even the far corner squares are made from minuscule yellow and red triangles, echoing two of the dominant colors used. While the quilt at first appears square, an additional border has been added at one end to make it rectangular.