QUILTS
Their Story and How to Make Them
by
MARIE D. WEBSTER
[Illustration]
Illustrated
Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1916
[Illustration: INDIANA WREATH
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
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Quilts by Marie D. Webster
- 2: Quilts by Marie D. Webster
- 3: Quilts by Marie D. Webster
- 4: The quilt possesses a peculiar merit
- 5: Such is the purpose of this book of quilts
- 6: Were probably quite as ancient as the Phrygians
- 7: The earth yielding linen and the sea purple
- 8: The patchwork designs are typically Egyptian
- 9: A most industrious needleworker
- 10: References to quilting and patchwork are few and uncertain
- 11: A homely cousin of the gorgeous opus conservetum
- 12: On a piece of old Milanese damask
- 13: A wonderful tent of this leather patchwork
- 14: The Hodja was cross and scolded her
- 15: In the past applique was very little used
- 16: Applied to a calico background and closely quilted
- 17: Lowes relates in Old Lace and Needlework that
- 18: A wonderful piece of needlework
- 19: During the Middle Ages applique was in universal use
- 20: It was peculiarly well adapted for quilts
- 21: About this time crewel was much in vogue
- 22: Or of their satin with taffeta
- 23: A quilt depending solely upon the stitching used in quilting
- 24: And buds being also worked in crewels
- 25: The early French settlers sought protection under furs
- 26: Four Duzen small glass salt cellars
- 27: Women revelled in intricate and difficult patchwork
- 28: The Social History of Flatbush
- 29: In the colonial plantation days of household industry quilts
- 30: The old women still weave coverlets
- 31: You start out with jest so much caliker
- 32: From out of the Wabash River alone over a thousand flatboats
- 33: Is quilted the name Indiana Wreath
- 34: The quilting had to be perfect
- 35: Or coutre whence coutre pointe
- 36: For those who enjoy making pieced quilts
- 37: And a set of cogwheels also made of cherry
- 38: This quilt is still unfinished
- 39: The quilting is done with fine cotton thread
- 40: As the number of quilters has decreased
- 41: Heavily interlined and elaborately quilted
- 42: Even to the novice in quilt making
- 43: Beginning with the Rising Sun
- 44: Sentimental names are also in evidence
- 45: And Grandmother's Choice are typical examples
- 46: There was no B'rer Rabbit in quilt lore
- 47: One guest bed had nineteen quilts
- 48: The desire for new quilt patterns
- 49: The King of Leinster and his court officiating
- 50: The real wonder is the quilting
- 51: One shown at an exhibition of quilts and coverlets
- 52: Where the quilt is put together and quilted
- 53: For quilts are useful as well as artistic
- 54: Gay quilts are on the best beds
- 55: The native women were taught to piece quilts
- 56: ' At the quilting Madame de Frontignac would have her seat
- 57: Giving a decided snip to her thread with her scissors
- 58: Marvyn clasped Mary closer to her
- 59: Before composing herself to sleep
- 60: The Live Oak Tree Lobster
- 61: The Radical Rose Railroad
- 62: Chats on old lace and needlework
- 63: Page 178 JUDAICS amended to JUDAICO DE BELLO JUDAICO