Please Help Date This Quilt
03-01-2011, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Butterflyblue
I just went home to my mom and dad's for a visit, and my mom had a new quilt hanging on the wall. I asked where it came from, and she said she thought maybe my Great-grandmother made it, around the mid-fifties or earlier, maybe 40's. My mom got it when my great-uncle died (late 80's), and the quilts had been in the basement of his house for probably thirty years at that point. So anyone that knows anything about this particular quilt is likely dead, unless my grandmother remembers something. There were two other quilts and a top that my mom showed me that she got at the same time. The top is feedsack material, and looks to me like its from the 30's-40's or later. The other two quilts use white or solid colors.
But this quilt, I'm not sure it is from the 40's. I think it is older than that, but I'm not an expert. It is all small scale prints, and scrappy, as you can see. Some of the prints are double pinks, and some are indigos/white. I didn't have a good camera - these are cell phone pics, so I apologize that details are fuzzy.
Can anyone else give me guesses/information?
But this quilt, I'm not sure it is from the 40's. I think it is older than that, but I'm not an expert. It is all small scale prints, and scrappy, as you can see. Some of the prints are double pinks, and some are indigos/white. I didn't have a good camera - these are cell phone pics, so I apologize that details are fuzzy.
Can anyone else give me guesses/information?
I think Butterflyblue is talking about her relatives in the 1900's????... that is 1950's or maybe earlier 1940's. Great uncle died in late 1980's... quilts in basement? didn't people put things in the attic in "olden" days???... feedsacks of this past century (mid 1900's)...remember this is the 21st century!!!!! Oh how time flies!
Even if the fabrics are from the 1800's (which I doubt) anything made newer is considered as of the date of completion or of the newest fabric used.
AND... those reds are quite red! Anything from the late 1800's or early 1900's when aniline dyes were used would have faded miserably by now with exposure to light.
Just my opinions.
03-01-2011, 07:33 PM
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The red is quite vivid. My mom THINKS my great-grandmother made the quilt, but it's just a quilt they found in the basement many years after she died. So it is possible it was a quilt made either early in her life, or that was passed down to her.
There is some mildew damage (from being stored in a basement by a bachelor uncle who didn't care about quilts at all) but overall the quilt is in pretty good condition. As you say, the colors are very vivid. It seems not to have been used much.
There is some mildew damage (from being stored in a basement by a bachelor uncle who didn't care about quilts at all) but overall the quilt is in pretty good condition. As you say, the colors are very vivid. It seems not to have been used much.
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