Una teacher in 1876 hand sewed this quilt to help to your astronomy class as the planets orbit the Sun in our solar system. An artisan work to teach and thus visually imply how our planet moves in an infinite orbit around the star king.
His name was Ellen Harding Baker, a XNUMXth century American astronomer who was famous for her particular way of teaching and practicing education in her classes. It was rumored that he spent 7 years sewing the entire solar system into a quilt, which he used to teach his students.
The dimensions of the quilt with the Solar System they reached 89 x 106 inches and it was made of woolen fabric, to be finished with a high-color appliqué, spear braids and even silk embroidery.
Similar to the illustrations in astronomy books of the time, shows the Sun around the center, the eight planets of our solar system, as well as the asteroid ring and a mixture of different stars.
You can also see the Earth's moon, the Galilean moons of Jupiter and the many moons of Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus; he even had the pleasure of adding the rings of Saturn with a yellow applique.
We can finally see a big kite in the upper left corner which supposedly represents Halley's Comet, which was last seen (before creating its quilt) in 1835.
Una incredibly embroidered quilt that remains as an example excellent on how astronomy can be taught using a little imagination and the desire to educate a class, such as Ellen's. Just two days after the landing of "Insight", NASA's new robot, we remember this great astronomer and her devotion to teaching.