The maker of this quilt is unknown, but it was probably made in the Southeastern United States.  As a “high-style” quilt in the European-American tradition, quilt historians might assume that a white woman made this quilt.  Scholar Gladys-Marie Fry and documentation projects such as the North Carolina Quilt Project, Mississippi Heritage Quilt Search, Georgia Quilt Project, and the Kentucky Quilt Project  each found quilts attributed to one or more slaves that fit the “high-style.” In some cases enslaved seamstresses made the quilts for plantation owners or members of the family; in other cases the stories are uknown.