Copy of Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt
American Pacific Enterprises in concert with the Smithsonian Institution
1992
China
Cotton with polyester filling
84 1/2” x 88”
MSUM 7341.1, Smithsonian registration #21883
Photo by KEVA, all rights reserved Michigan State University Museum

This copy was purchased from the Speigel Company mail order catalogue as a study/teaching specimen. It has value as a copy of Powers' quilt but also as an excellent example of the way in which quilts have achieved such enormous popularity that commercial companies are contracting these reproductions for sale to mass markets. This quilt, like many other reproduction textiles, was made in China.