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| Anonymous Maker Quilt in Hexagon Pattern (detail) ca. 1840-60 silk and cotton National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Maker Quilt in Hexagon Pattern ca. 1840-60 silk and cotton National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Laura Clark Table Cover - Log Cabin Variation ca. 1855-65 silk and cotton National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Martha Jane Taylor Parlor Throw ca. 1870-80 embroidered silk National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Delia Lynch Parlor Throw ca. 1875-90 embroidered silk National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Martha Thomas Parlor Throw - Fan Motif ca. 1880-90 embroidered silk National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Sarah Henderson Parlor Throw 1883 embroidered silk National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Maker Block for Crazy Quilt ca. 1885-1900 embroidered silk and cotton National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Maker Block for Crazy Quilt ca. 1885-1900 embroidered silk and cotton National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Margaret Tormey Pillow Sham (made to match quilt) ca. 1886 embroidered silk National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Maker Parlor Throw - Log Cabin Pattern ca. 1890 embroidered cotton with silk velvet border Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Maker Quilt - Fan Pattern ca. 1890-1910 silk velvet, cotton velveteen, cotton corduroy Anacostia Community Museum, Washington DC |
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| Georgia Maltbie Crazy Quilt ca. 1895-1910 embroidered silk and cotton Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Bonnie Blevins Parlor Throw 1905 embroidered silk and cotton National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Caroline Reboux Scarf ca. 1920 pieced strips of silk satin Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Renate Weisz Scriptura Dekor 1993 screenprinted cotton (imitating piecework with texts) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Loretta Pettway Quilt 2003 cotton and polyester Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Loitering with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And brooding on my heavy ill,
I met a statue standing still.
Still in marble stone stood he,
And stedfastly he looked on me.
'Well met,' I thought the look would say,
'We both were fashioned far away;
We neither knew, when we were young
These Londoners we live among.'
Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
'What, lad, drooping with your lot?
I too would be where I am not.
I too survey that endless line
Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.
Years, ere you stood up from rest,
On my neck the collar prest;
Years, when you lay down your ill,
I shall stand and bear it still.
Courage, lad, 'tis not for long:
Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.'
So I thought his look would say;
And light on me my trouble lay,
And I stept out in flesh and bone
Manful like the man of stone.
– A.E. Housman (1896)