Wedding Ring quilt

Catherine Sloan, artist

1906–1993

Wedding Ring quilt, circa 1930–1940

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: piecing; quilting; cotton

Credit line: Gift of Gair M. Sloan

Accession number: 1994.0041

Not on display

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This quilt may contain scraps from Sloan’s home sewing projects, but the Wedding Ring design was popular in an era when garment factories and fabric mills sold small pieces of fabric specifically for making quilts. Marketing cotton prints for quilters was a big business then as it is today. Women's magazines often carried advertisements for fabric bundles for patchwork. Sloan might have banked on the popularity of the scraps she bought to make this quilt later in her life—she ran her own fabric store, Sloan’s Fabrics, in Leavenworth from 1964–1979.

Viewers may notice the cream fabric on the right is darker than the fabric on the left of the quilt. It seems likely that this variation was originally less noticable and that the cream fabrics have aged differently.