77" x 77".

A rare whole cloth quilt from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, with the fabric resembling the palampore style of the 17th and 18th century having mordant painted and dyed cotton with a repeating pattern of floral design. The quilt is bordered with a broad band of floral pattern in blue. The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. American, early 19th century.

Hand Stitched with some staining and aging.