Crazy quilts are closely related to fan quilts.
Both appeared in the 1880s, lavished with embroidery.
Here are a few fantastic fans from America's golden age of silk bedcovers.
...with a few wool quilts too
And cotton...
From the New Jersey project & the Quilt Index
Many I found in online auctions or just floating around in Google pictures.
This small wool piece I had photographed years ago for Clues in the Calico.
Date-inscribed 1893, Bourbon County, Kentucky
Smithsonian Institution.
