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1893 World's Columbian Exposition #6: The Women's Building
Tapestries, banners and paintings were hung in the mainhall of the Women's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition The Women's Building was an important feature of the 1893 Fair, designed to show...
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1893 World's Columbian Exposition #7: The State Buildings
Chicagoans viewing the Lake from downtown today can hardly imagine what it all looked like in summer, 1893 when dozens and dozens of fanciful yet substantial buildings constructed for a six-month event...
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Red Dresses (and Pink)
 Variations on pink---Augusta AuctionsOctober 22 is Wear Pink Day to raise awareness and funding for breast cancer research.I have friends (you may be one of them) whohave refused to wear pink since...
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Label for Your Mary Delany Quilt
 Print this label out on treated fabric with your inkjet printer. It's about 6-1/2" x 8"with plenty of room to sign and date below the text. You may want to shrink it a bit.Deanna Street's finished all...
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Laura Fisher
 Laura Fisher (1945-2021)Photo from John SaulsLaura Fisher was a long-time New York quilt dealer with a fabulous eye for the off-beat quilt. She's been a friend for years and we are all shocked to hear...
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Katherine Hamburger & Her One Hundred Quilts
 Katherine Webb Hamburger (1884-1957) showing off her "Anne Hathaway's Cottage" quilt in 1946.It is primarily pieced of hexagons (16,000 pieces she counted)and took 40 yards of fabric. That would be...
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Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon
 Painter Francis Bacon by his friend Lucian FreudHere are two of my favorite painters.Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis BaconBad-boy London artists in the mid-20th century when I was in art...
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Pie Town Quilts
 Otis Staggs showing the photographer herquilt made from recycled tobacco sacks, Pie Town,Catron County, New MexicoRussell Lee, working for the W.P.A.'s photography project in 1940, took hundreds of...
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Quilt Index Improvements: If I Do Say So Myself
Years ago when I was young I had this idea (perhaps not something other 25 year-olds were thinking about....) What if you gave every quilt pattern a number and then you wouldn't be so confused by all...
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John Saul's Quilt Pix
 John Sauls has been entertaining us at the QuiltHistorySouth Facebookgroup with pictures of quilts that have passed through his hands over the years.For quite a while he's bought and sold quilts out...
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Carpenter's Wheel for AccuQuilt Go
 The Accu-Quilt Go people have a new die for their cutting machines: Carpenter's Wheel. They asked me for a little pattern history. I found several variations in The Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt...
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Betting on New York
 Quilt with a label, pictured in Jinny Beyer's 1985 book The Scrap LookCollection of Diana Leone. 105" x 106"The label:"Presented to Ann Elizabeth Ayers by her mother Janey 1867 made and quilted by her...
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How To ID a Pieced Block in my Encyclopedia
Indiana Quilt Project & the Quilt IndexLooking for a pattern name?Iowa, Fanny JamesNew YorkA popular block in the 1890-1925 period.What's the name?You can find published names in my Encyclopedia of...
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American Guides: American Folk Arts
 When I was young and gas was 25 cents a gallon and pick-ups got 10 mpg we just drove and drove.I always packed a WPA guide from the library.Written during the 1930s by underemployed writers,these...
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Professional Album Quiltmakers in Philadelphia
 The Brainerd QuiltCollection of the Philadelphia Museum of ArtApproximately 120" x 108"Detail of a quilt with about 100 cut-out-chintz applique blocks, many of them inked with names and dated...
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Six Know-It-Alls Giveaway
 Me and a few friends put on a show once a month.We sit around and talk about antique quilts in a Zoom get-together for an hour or so.We Six Know-It-Alls have been doing this nearly all year.The...
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Kentucky Quilt Shown at the 1851 Crystal Palace Expo
Chintz commemorating the 1851 London Exhibition,known as the Crystal Palace after the glass building built to house it.A while ago I discussed the lack of accurate information about quilts shown at the...
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EQ Design Challenge: Best of Morris
 I believe our ship has come in.Well, maybe just a digital ship. I've been looking for my latest Moda fabric Best of Morris for months---you've heard it all--- ships, ports, supply chains. (Could be...
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Cat Mummies & Log Cabins
Ancient Egyptian culture had a thing for cats(For all I know current Egyptian culture may have a thing for cats.)British Museum collection of cat mummies.They have a good collection and the best online...
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Infinite Variety: Joanna Semel Rose
 Joanna Semel Rose (1930-2021)New York lost a remarkable woman last month with the passing of Joanna Semel Rose.Quilt fans are familiar with her name because her husband threwher a spectacular 80th...
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