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Stripes for Bordering Quilts: Poppies
Broderie Perse or Chintz Applique quilt sold by Northeast Auctions.Not much is known about it but my first guess was "Carolinas,...
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Raffle Quilts
No Two AlikeKansas Prairie Guild in TopekaA short survey of some recent raffle quilts giving you an idea of what quilters are making lately.New York Radiance Courthouse Quilters Guild New Jersey,...
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Political Patterns #1: 1852 Reference
"Old Zack"Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Artshttps://www.mfa.org/collections/object/printed-cotton-general-taylor-at-the-battle-of-palo-alto-may-8-1846-119326In May, 1852 the Lancaster (South...
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Political Quilts #2: Quilt for Henry Clay from Philadelphia
"To Henry Clay from Ladies of Phila."Silk quilt, 1844The large dedication block is in the center of this silkstar quilt in the collection of Henry Clay's Ashland museum.(Â # 1988.147)From an old...
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Political Quilts #3: Clay Campaign Ribbons & Badges
Silk quilt by Rebecca Vanuxem Lombart Williams (1819-1880)Collection of the Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The quilt has two Clay campaign ribbons stitched into the border. Family...
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Political Quilts #4: Democratic Victory---Whig's Defeat
Democratic Victory QuiltRecorded in the Tennessee Project.Family history attributes it to 1851, Loudon County, Hardin ValleyI would call this pattern Whig's Defeat but the family story told at the...
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Political Quilts #5: Quilt Pro or Anti-Henry Clay?
Quilt combining portraits of two Whigs, Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor, plus founding father George Washington with the patchwork design we call Whig's Defeat. It was auctioned a few years...
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Political Quilts #6: The Gear Cog Flag
My old friend Julie Powell had a Henry Clay quiltin her collection for years. Here's a detail of it on the cover of the bookOn the Cutting EdgeShe donated it to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2013 a...
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Political Quilts #7: Tennessee Chintz Quilt for Clay
"La Grange Mill Boys" flagThe Henry Clay quilt list has gotten out of hand.You can see his popularity by the number of quilts honoring him.Here's the last post for this election season.Chintz flag...
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Maryland Quilt Show at AQSG
Detail of a Baltimore Album quilt in the collection ofDebby Cooney & Ronda McAllenWhen I heard that the American Quilt Study Group was meetingin Maryland in 2018 I knew I was going.They made some...
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Kate Clayton Donaldson's Appliqued Textiles
Appliqued crocheted piece by Kate Clayton DonaldsonSold at Case AntiquesI've long been intrigued by this photograph in the Library of Congress, which has been posted for several years without any...
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Dated Quilts---A Flaw in My Methodology
1797, Hannah John. Documented by the Maine Project.One of my quilt history goals last year was to develop an accessible internet file of quilts with dates inscribed on them. I created Pinterest pages...
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Past Perfect: Liz Porter
Oak Leaf by Liz PorterThis month's Past Perfect quiltmaker is Liz Porter, who has spent her career interpreting vintage quilt design for new fabrics and techniques.Marianne Fons and Liz Porter, two...
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Princess Feather Medallion Extravaganza
Detail of a quilt by Susan Theresa Holbert LawrenceCollection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Historyhttp://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_556215Â Here's one of...
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Fanny Dickerson Bergen: Folklorist
Fanny Bergen published this circular design as Rising Sun in 1894Â Fanny Dickerson Bergen (1846-1924) showed pictures and names of 29 patchwork patterns in Scribner's Magazine in a romantic article...
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Virtual Booth Fall Quilt Market 2018
Woman Selling PatternsA Classic BusinessQuilt Market in Houston is later than usual this year, November 3-5, which has given me time to do a little research for a virtual booth. My inspiration---a...
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Dark Ground Chintzes #1: Peter Floud
Sample book of mid-19th-c madder prints All swatch book photos from a Christie's auctionIn the mid 1950s the curators at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London borrowed a terrific resource on...
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Dark Ground Chintzes #2: Floud's Observations
Fabric with "moss-sprays" on a "dark ground"from a gown in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtIn an April, 1957 article for Connoisseur Peter Floud of the Victoria & Albert Museum...
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Dark Ground Chintzes #3: Defining a Style
Dark ground prints, one with a cracked ice figure, a version of a floral trail.Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, attributed to Chester County, Pennsylvania...
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Dark Ground Chintzes #4: What Color Is It?
I've been familiar with this checkerboard quilt in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art for many years. In my mind it has always been "the brown and white quilt from the Alexander Hamilton...
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