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QUILTS

Their Story and How to Make Them

by

MARIE D. WEBSTER

Illustrated

Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1916

Made in 1858. Colours: red, green, yellow, and pink]

Copyright, 1915, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
Introduction xv

I. Patchwork in Antiquity 3

II. Patchwork and Quilting During the Middle Ages 16

III. Patchwork and Quilting in Old England 34

IV. The Quilt in America 60

V. How Quilts Are Made 89

VI. Quilt Names 115

VII. Quilt Collections and Exhibitions 133

VIII. The Quilt's Place in American Life 149

List of Quilt Names, Arranged Alphabetically 169

List of References 177

LIST OF COLOUR PLATES

Indiana Wreath _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
*The Bedtime Quilt 24

The Iris Design 40

Morning Glories 56

Daisy Quilt 72

*Poppy Design 86

*The Sunflower Quilt 102

"Pink Rose" Design 120

*The "Wind-blown Tulip" Design 134

Golden Butterflies and Pansies 140

The "Snowflake" Quilt Design 146

*The Dogwood Quilt 150

The Wild Rose 156

*Morning Glory 160

*"Keepsake Quilt" 164

* Made by Marie Webster.

LIST OF BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
Section of Funeral Tent of an Egyptian Queen, Made
in a Patchwork of Coloured Goatskins 4

Old English Appliqué 5

Fifth Century Appliqué 6

Armenian Patchwork: St. George and the Dragon 7

Persian Quilted Linen Bath Carpet: Seventeenth Century 10

Old English Hanging with Appliqué Figures 11

Modern Egyptian Patchwork: Four Cushion Covers 12

Modern Egyptian Patchwork: Panels for Screens 13

Modern Egyptian Patchwork: Panels for Wall Decoration 16

Double Nine Patch 17

Pieced Baskets 20

Bedroom, Cochran Residence, Deerfield, Mass. 21

Jacob's Ladder 28

Conventional Tulip 29

Old German Appliqué, Metropolitan Museum, New York 32

Double X 33

Puss-in-the-Corner 34

Tea Leaves 35

Feather Star 38

Drunkard's Path 39

Star of the East 42

White Quilt with Tufted Border, Metropolitan Museum,
New York 43

Sunburst and Wheel of Fortune 46

Tree of Paradise 47

Old Bed and Trundle Bed 48

Two White Tufted Bedspreads 49

Tufted Bedspread with Knotted Fringe 52

Unknown Star 53

Combination Rose 54

Double Tulip 55

Princess Feathers 58

Princess Feathers with Border 59

Peonies 60

North Carolina Lily 61

Feather Star with Appliqué 64

Tulip Tree Leaves 65

Mexican Rose 66

Currants and Cockscomb 67

Conventional Appliqué 70

Single Tulip 71

Ohio Rose 74

Rose of Sharon 75

Original Floral Designs 78

Conventional Tulip 79

Conventional Rose 80

Conventional Rose Wreath 81

Poinsettia 84

Whig Rose 85

Harrison Rose 92

Detail of Harrison Rose, Showing Quilting 93

Original Rose Design 96

Pineapple Design 97

Virginia Rose 100

Rose of LeMoine 101

Charter Oak 108

Puffed Quilt of Silk 109

Variegated Hexagon, Silk 112

Roman Stripe, Silk 113

American Log Cabin, Silk and Wool 116

Democrat Rose 117

Original Rose No. 3 124

White Quilt, Stuffed Designs 125

White Quilt 128

Old Ladies Quilting 129

Quilts on a Line 136

*Grapes 137

* Made by Marie Webster.

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

QUILTING DESIGNS

PAGE
Single Diagonal Lines 93

Double Diagonal Lines 93

Triple Diagonal Lines 93

Diamonds 99

Hanging Diamonds 99

Broken Plaid 99

Rope 104

Shell 104

Fan 104

Feathers in Bands 105

Feathers in Waved Lines 105

Feathers in Circles 105

Three Original Quilting Designs from Old Quilts 108

Design from an Old English Quilt 112

Medallion Design 112

Pineapple 112