These restored messages come from the Quilt History List, an online forum where quilt historians, collectors, researchers, appraisers, and enthusiasts discussed antique quilts and related textiles. The archive dates from 1996 through approximately 2016 and is being restored gradually. Original spelling, opinions, formatting, and inactive links may remain unchanged.
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Jean If anyone lives near Alton, IL, and is able to visit Loomis Hall, please try to authenticate this supposed “message quilt” referred to in the travel ad at the following web site, sponsored by Springfield, IL: http://www.visit-springfieldillinois.com/grouptours/i-secrets.htm I’d be curious to know its age and provenance. This…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Judy Kelius Thanks Nancy… I also thought of Burgess but I don’t think they are his characters. Plus I’m sure I sold something (not a quilt) with similar characters several years ago that I was able to identify and date. I think it’s spelled “Quaddie Quiltie” – a…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:54:26 -0700 | From: Chris Anacker <chrisa@> In the summer issue of American Quilter magazine there is an ad selling instructions to “Learn English paper piecing”, which includes a video, die cut pieces and a pattern. There is a website www.paperpieces.com. I don’t know…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:56:16 -0400 | From: “Candace Perry” <candace@> From all of your excellent descriptions (what would a generalist curator do without you fine people?) I am pretty certain this is NOT candlewicking, and is a Bolton-type coverlet. I’m going to proceed with that assumption… Thanks…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: “Anne Datko” <datkoa@> But my husband says there is no ‘w’ in Slovene. However, ‘za’ is a preposition in some Eastern European languages; means ‘between.’ AnneD Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:19:25 -0500 | From: “Karen Musgrave” <karenmusgrave@> While it is indeed sad to learn that Lowell is…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:39:02 +0100 | From: Sally Ward <sallytatters@> I remember Portiere Rods on doorways in both Grandparents’ houses. The rod stood out on brackets, about 6″ from the door, wider and higher than the door itself. One of the brackets was fixed to the rod,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Barbara Burnham Carolyn, Perhaps the same ebay seller could tell you about the original patterns. If they are from a published pattern, hopefully she would have checked on copyright before she started selling copies the patterns. Barbara Burnham Ellicott City, MD Crm793@ wrote: Okay, Okay, I know the…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Sally Ward <sallytatters@> Andi wrote: > I have come across an ad block in a dated 1890 redwork album raffle quilt > for a drug store that included the word “Portmoniaos” or words “Port > Moniaos” in a block section that also mentions purses, What about ‘porte-monnaie’, French…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: sue reich Adams Sentinel Gettysburg, Pennsylvania February 5, 1849 The Ruff in Queen Elizabeth’s time. — It is stated in a modern popular work, that the most distinguished characteristic in Queen Elizabeth’s day, was the ruff. It was worn of such an enormous size that a lady in…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Laura Robins-Morris It gets even worse than the quilt codes myth. I watched the video and there is a student re-telling the stories of real escaped slaves. One is about Eliza Harris in ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ who “ran across the Ohio River on big chunks of ice.” Eliza…