Approx. 78 x 88 inch 'Double Wedding Ring' pieced by Ida Bixby when she was about 86 years old, around 1968. She was a woman who had lived with Peters in Portland. She pieced it in 1967 when she lived with them. It was her 18th Double Wedding Ring quilt. She quilted on her lap--and she pieced it in two weeks. $300 insured

Title
Approx. 78 x 88 inch 'Double Wedding Ring' pieced by Ida Bixby when she was about 86 years old, around 1968. She was a woman who had lived with Peters in Portland. She pieced it in 1967 when she lived with them. It was her 18th Double Wedding Ring quilt. She quilted on her lap--and she pieced it in two weeks. $300 insured
Repository
Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore
Contributor
Peters, Audrey, 1922-
Collector
Kodish, Deborah
Description
Photograph from the Folk Art of the Oregon Country Project Records, 1979-1980.
Subject
Double Wedding Ring
Work Type
35mm (photographic film size)
Ethnographic Term
material culture manufacturing processes textile processes needlework quilting quilts language names quilt pattern names
Location
Bay City >> Tillamook County >> Oregon >> United States
Date
1979
Identifier
OFA_79_DK_A65_084
Item Locator
OFA/79_DK_A65.83
Rights
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Rights Holder
Oregon Arts Commission
Local Collection Name
Webfoots and Bunchgrassers: Folk Art of the Oregon Country
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Set
Northwest Folklife Digital Collection
Primary Set
Northwest Folklife Digital Collection
Institution
University of Oregon