Spider Webs in quilts
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Spider Webs in quilts
A friend of mine just showed me a quilt that had a realistic spider webs stitched by hand on it. I seem to think that there the webs represent something, but just what I don't know. Does anyone know any info about how these webs came to be on quilts, or the history of it? It seems so odd to me to have a web on a quilt, but I figure must be a reason for its use.
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I know that there are Christmas ornaments with spider webs. Don't know if it's the same story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend...ristmas_Spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend...ristmas_Spider
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My MIL said - To ensure a restful night a spiders web was stitched into the bottom hem to stop bad dreams from sneaking under the covers. Quilting was /is still a great way to give ourselves a mental health check and the web caught all our fears-anger - sadness-etc.. and the receiver of the quilt did not inherit are upset feelings. Kind of makes sense
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My MIL said - To ensure a restful night a spiders web was stitched into the bottom hem to stop bad dreams from sneaking under the covers. Quilting was /is still a great way to give ourselves a mental health check and the web caught all our fears-anger - sadness-etc.. and the receiver of the quilt did not inherit are upset feelings. Kind of makes sense
I love this explanation.
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