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Chintzes from the Portuguese 2
From the Cooper-Hewitt collection. Wacky bird---a peacock crossed with a cockatoo?The caption indicates the print was made about 1860 for the...
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Chintzes FOR the Portuguese 3
Quilt with a central panel memorializing the marriageof Charlotte Princess of Wales and Leopold in 1816.Collection of the New England Quilt Museum.I'd call that double border stripe a Portuguese...
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Chintzes FOR or FROM the Portuguese 4
In his 1942 edition of the book English Chintzes Frank Lewis published this striped print with the caption:"An example of the designs produced in this country [England] for the Portuguese...
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Chintzes for the Portuguese 5: A Digression to Brazil
Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend, Edisto Island, South Carolina child's quilt. About 1835. Collection of the Smithsonian Institution.The museum owns two of her quilts made from imported chintzes.In 1838,...
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Chintzes for the Portuguese 6: We're All Portuguese
"TEXTILE (PORTUGAL), LATE 19TH CENTURY," Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.1858 cartoon of Queen Victoria as Empress of India withone of her many subjects.There was a time when England was the...
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Chintzes for the Portuguese 7: Conclusions
Collection of the Winterthur MuseumIt's been seven days of blather about Portuguese Prints. And I do have a point to make. Well, several, so here's a summary of what I learned.Block Printing a Striped...
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Past Perfect: Margaret Mew
Sarah Jane's Scrapbag by Margaret Mew.October's Past Perfect nominee is Margaret Mew from Elphinston, Victoria, Australia.Margaret Mew's home is an 1860s railroad station, thereason for her business...
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Geography Lesson
Did you ever notice how much a crazy quilt can resemble a map?Clara apparently did.1891.Crazy quilt by 13-year-old Clara Sawtell, done as a class project,Wisconsin Project, pictured in their...
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Virtual Booth-Quilt Market Houston: Saving Money
Quilt Market is October 26-30, 2017 in Houston. We decided to save some of our virtual money this year and not do a virtual booth. We're just going to go and dress to sell....Inspired by these photos...
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Antique Quilt Heaven at AQSG
Four block eagle quilt (1840-1870) on the leftat Julie Silber Quilts boothOne good reason to attend the American Quilt Study Group Seminar no matter where is the Quilt Dealers Area. The best dealers in...
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Kentucky Album Quilts: A Curious Absence
Quilt in the popular album pattern known as Chimney Sweep.This quilt was documented by Quilts of Tennessee, but thefamily thought it might have been made in Lexington, Kentucky.The chintz border...
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AQSG Special Exhibit
A Crazy quilt from Montpelier, Vermont. Sharon Waddell's collection.The quilt exhibit at the hotel for the American Quilt Study Group's Seminar last months was Chintz, Calamanco & Cotton: Quilts of...
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Alabama Quilts
Seven Sisters variation (Egyptian Design) Pike County, AlabamaI stumbled across a picture file of Alabama quilts in theAlabama Decorative Arts Survey in the online files of the Birmingham Public...
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Nine Blocks: Same Nine Blocks
From Freeman's AuctionsHow were quilt patterns passed around in the 19th century?One clue is in this sampler, which is quite a bitlike the sampler below. Both are from online auctionsover the past few...
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Antique Quilt Exhibits: Winter & Spring 2018
Get that automobile in working order and pack it for a road trip.California, FolsomFolsom Historical Society. Fine Art of Piecemaking. January 20 - April 16th,...
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Past Perfect: Elly Sienkiewicz
Odense Album, designed by Elly Sienkiewicz70″ x 70″, 1989-1990.Few people have had as much influence on quiltmakers and quilt style as Eleanor P. Hamilton Sienkiewicz. Ever.Elly at one of the Applique...
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Pumpkin Spice Quilts
Lots of seasonal flavors here: From the Flack CollectionMany of them from southeastern PennsylvaniaPook & Pook AuctionBerks County, MennoniteThe plain colored fabric is dyed with chrome orange, a...
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Amelia's Aviary 1: Partridge & Palm
Four early 19th-century quilts are attributed to Amelia Heiskell Lauck, each with cut-out chintz birds. Quilt attributed to Amelia Heiskell Lauck (1760-1842) Winchester, VirginiaColonial Williamsburg...
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Three Applique Samplers for the Quilt Detective
Dawn knows I love a quilt coincidence so she sent a mystery to solve."Rare pieced and appliqued cotton bedcover, American, possibly Baltimore, circa 1850"86" x 75"This terrific applique sampler was...
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Festival of Trees 2017
Our stitch group the City Sewers decorated a tree for the annualLawrence Festival of Trees charity sale.It's a benefit for the local Children's Shelter.Getting a heavily decorated 7-foot tree downtown...
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