January 19 – 23, 2004
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- Were Quilted Petticoats Called “Quilts”? — A deep dive into how 18th-century probate inventories used the word “quilt.”
- Traditional British Quilts Book Hunt — Dorothy Osler’s out-of-print book prompts recommendations of UK booksellers. (see the article on quilting in Europe)
- Vermont Sanitation Quilt Photos Posted — A member shares images of a community quilt discussed earlier over the holidays.
- Road to California Show Winners — The year’s big quilt-show results are shared alongside an eBay silk quilt identification.
Date: January 20, 2004 | From: Laurajbr@
I’d love to havev them if I’m not too late, Nancy.
Laura Brooker
Date: January 22, 2004 | From: “ChrisB”
Sorry forgot the link http://www.road2ca.com/2004winners.html
Date: January 22, 2004 | From: Kris Driessen <krisdriessen@>
I am a bit behind in updating the photos on the Quilt Study group page, but I promise I will do so soon! You really have to see the Ohio Star Polka Dot quilt:-))
As for those NJ cinders… give me salt and sand any day. I now have a hole in my windshield which I am telling everyone was done by a member of the Judy Ringo gang.
Kris
Date: January 22, 2004 | From: Kris Driessen <krisdriessen@>
<img align=”left” alt=”click on the thumbnail to see this up close” border=”2″ height=”75″ src=”images/silkquilt_small.jpg” width=”100″/>This one caught my attention http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2588908969&category=2221
but is it silk? Is it mid 19th century? I think not, but I would be happy to be wrong. What do y’all think?
Kris, practising her y’alls.
Date: January 22, 2004 | From: Dana Balsamo <danabalsamo@>
Hi Kris, I am no expert, but it doesn’t look mid 19th Century and at least some if it isn’t silk.
Joan from VFF…check out the seller’s about me page, and click on her Barkcloth Link…to DIE for…she has lots of the large florals you love…I have to admit, I am partial to the MOD designs.
My best, Dana
Date: January 22, 2004 | From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip@>
Dana — I deleted that ebay link to barkcloth. Do you remember seller’s name? I can use that as a search word. Re silk quilt — possibly some of the silk is silk and cotton blends per many of the fabrics to cut down on cost. It looks in remarkably good condition save for several split areas I noticed.
Date: January 22, 2004 | From: Donald Beld
Hi, I have the big quilts every year at Road to California and the two appliqued quilts that won best of show and best traditional were, as stated today, stunning. They represented the finest in traditional applique and patterns and quilting. Extraordinary quilts and the very essence of why I don’t go applique–I’m not a good enough quilter.
Also, I was looking for a particular 19th Century quilt and looked throught he Wisconsin Quilt book and noticed that the Skinner Civil War Auction Quilt that we have a photo of on vintagepictures.eboard.com is the COVER quilt for the book. I am the only idiot who did not know that? No wonder it sold for $149,000. Don Beld
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: Margareta.Faust@
Is there a way of getting hold of these articles when you’re far far away from a library? Margareta in Luxembourg
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: Dana Balsamo <danabalsamo@>
Hi Joan, The quilt is http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2588908969&category=2221
Her Barkcloth Pics are here: http://imageevent.com/vintagetresors/vintagebarkclothstylenames
Hugs, Dana Joan Kiplinger <jkip@> wrote: Dana — I deleted that ebay link to barkcloth. Do you remember seller’s name? I can use that as a search word. Re silk quilt — possibly some of the silk is silk and cotton blends per many of the fabrics to cut down on cost. It looks in remarkably good condition save for several split areas I noticed.
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: Beth Donaldson <quilts@>
Check out this quilt to see another Masonic Symbol quilt. http://www.museum.@/glqc/collections_2001.158.10.html
Beth Donaldson Great Lakes Quilt Center, MSU Museum
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: Ark Quilts <quiltarkmv@>
The quilt on ebay with the shiny, solid color fabric looks very similar to polished cottons from the 1930’s that were woven & had a slight twill in the weave. It was a heavier woven cotton. I have repaired a few quilts with that fabric in it & it is, of course, impossible to match. A few years ago the fabric stores carried a line of polished solid cottons with a similar weave, but I never saw any of them listed in catalogs or displayed in stores. It’s a nice fabric.
Connie Ark where it was 2 degrees this morning.
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: Ark Quilts <quiltarkmv@>
I hope someone on QHL can help me identify a fabric.
I recently bought an “ugly” 4-patch quilt with lots of scrap fabrics from mid-1800’s through about 1920.
The double-pink print (in the design of a linen weave) used for the lattice pieces is also a reversible print. It has a woodcut like floral pattern printed in tan or light brown on the back–nothing like what is on the front in the double-pink. Definitely intentionally different prints on the 2 sides. This fabric is a little heavier than some of the cottons from the same era.
I once saw a quilt in Plain City, Ohio that was made by a Mennonite quilter who had sewn a handwritten note on a linen print double-pink fabric similar to this one : made a dress for ____ in 1840. This fabric was sewn into a finished quilt, so I couldn’t see the back.
Does anyone know about when reversible fabrics were printed? If you would like to see a digital photo of the fabric, I will take one this weekend and email it to you if you request it. Thanks–Connie Ark
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: “Jean Carlton” <jeancarlton@>
Thanks, Karen, for the QNM information on the articles by Barbara B. Now to find them to read. I am traveling – could very well have the issues at my home but won’t be there for some time. If I don’t find them before I go home through Lincoln, I think the library there will have them. Thanks again Jean
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip@>
For those who have been wondering about Vintage Fashion magazine, here is an update [also posted to VF list] — I just called the editorial offices to find out what is going on. The second issues was mailed in December — I did not get mine so one is being mailed. If you are a subscriber or would like to subscribe there have been some tel. # changes: 800 487-3333 is a customer service agency which will mail you current issue [2nd] if you have not received it. But they cannot help beyond that point. 413 564-7070 replaces the 718 editorial office tel #. Myra Fine is on hand to help with questions and subscribtions. She confirms that the 2nd issue has been mailed and is quite stunning, that a third issue is in the works as well as future ones but that magazine will not be available on newsstands for awhile. Hope this helps those who are interested in this magazine and who are subscribers.
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: Dana Balsamo <danabalsamo@>
Joan, Thanks! Finally got through…they are sending the current issue gratis, isn’t that nice? Hugs, Dana
Joan Kiplinger <jkip@> wrote: For those who have been wondering about Vintage Fashion magazine, here is an update [also posted to VF list] — I just called the editorial offices to find out what is going on. The second issues was mailed in December — I did not get mine so one is being mailed. If you are a subscriber or would like to subscribe there have been some tel. # changes: 800 487-3333 is a customer service agency which will mail you current issue [2nd] if you have not received it. But they cannot help beyond that point. 413 564-7070 replaces the 718 editorial office tel #. Myra Fine is on hand to help with questions and subscribtions. She confirms that the 2nd issue has been mailed and is quite stunning, that a third issue is in the works as well as future ones but that magazine will not be available on newsstands for awhile. Hope this helps those who are interested in this magazine and who are subscribers.
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip@>
I’ve just posted to the eboard for Judy the Ringo Kid 😀 a beautiful 2-sided silk Quaker quilt est. 3rd quarter 19thC. The stripes and dark shades are taffeta as probably most of the other silk colors, IMHO. http://vintagepictures.eboard com or http://www.eboard.com/vintagepictures Select quilt tab
Dana — happy to hear you were able to connect.
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: “J. G. Row” <JudyGrow@>
The silk quilt that Joan posted for me is owned by the Burlington County Historical Society in NJ. We saw it when we had study group there in July. I brought up my photos because of the similarity to the quilt on E-bay that Dana posted about.
The quilt is http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2588908969&category=2221
There is the possiblility that this quilt is also made from silk used in dresses from ladies of the Quaker persuasion.
By the way, I found the quilt on the General tab, not the quilt tab.
Judy “the Ringo kid ” in Ringoes, NJ judygrow@
Date: January 23, 2004 | From: KareQuilt@
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