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Pumpkin Spice Quilts

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Lots of seasonal flavors here: 

From the Flack Collection

Many of them from southeastern Pennsylvania

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Berks County, Mennonite

The plain colored fabric is dyed with chrome orange, a mineral dye.

Today people call it cheddar.

I'm guessing this one is Pennsylvania because of the fancy feather 
quilting in the border.

Chrome orange was also an end-of-the-19th-century flavor in
the Southern U.S.


From Richard Rivoire's collection, Raleigh N.C. 

How do you tell if a pumpkin-spice color scheme indicates Berks County, PA or North Carolina?
Quilting, pattern, borders, set, maybe fabric quality (threads per square inch). It's not always easy,
especially if you find the quilt in Arizona.

Arkansas

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