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品名（中）	被子中心
品名（英）	Quilt center
入馆年号	2005年，2005.284
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	John Hewson【1744 至 1821】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1787 - 公元 1793
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 宾夕法尼亚, 费城（Made in: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia）
分类
尺寸	27 5/8 x 29 1/2 英寸 (70.2 x 74.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	约翰·休森是美国第一位重要且有据可查的纺织品印刷商，应本杰明·富兰克林的邀请于 1773 年 9 月从伦敦抵达费城。休森在伦敦布罗姆利大厅接受过生产最高质量的木版印刷纺织品的培训，几乎立即成立了一家"卡利科印刷工厂"。他很快因其花装制品和印花被罩以及像这样的面板而声名鹊起。虽然它们最初可能打算用作手帕，但幸存下来的十几块手帕中的许多都被用作被子的中心面板。这些珍贵的高级风格床罩通常有几个充满活力的棉布宽边框，有些带有复杂的拼接或贴花区域。众所周知，中间的面板是休森的作品，因为其中一块被子被包含在他妻子制作的被子中，该被子是家族的后裔，现在在费城艺术博物馆。所有面板都展示了一个优雅的骨灰盒，里面装满了鲜花，周围环绕着鸟类和蝴蝶。织物是用几个不同的块分阶段印刷的，某些颜色是手绘的。
介绍（英）	John Hewson, the first important and well-documented textile printer in America, arrived in Philadelphia from London in September 1773 at the invitation of Benjamin Franklin. Trained to produce the highest quality block-printed textiles at Bromley Hall in London, Hewson set up a "Calicoe Printing Manufactory" almost immediately. He quickly gained fame for his flowered dress goods and printed coverlets, and for panels like this one. Though they may have been originally intended as handkerchiefs, many of the dozen or so that survive were used as center panels in quilts. These treasured high-style bedcovers usually have several wide borders of vibrant chintz, some with complex pieced or appliquéd areas. The center panels are known to be Hewson's work because one was included in a quilt made by his wife that descended through the family and is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The panels all show a graceful urn filled with flowers and surrounded by birds and butterflies. The fabric was printed in stages with several different blocks, and certain colors were hand painted.