Originally Posted by Barb44
Miss M,
Thanks for the info. I find quilt history really interesting.
I'm not ready for an 1812 quilt yet. I have wanted to do Barbara Brackman's Civil War quilt. It's on my list, but a bit far down. I need to get fabric, though, while it is still available. Wonder what the fabrics are like for 1812.
This is what I found described:
Quilt using a variety of fabrics, including cotton, linen, silk, wool and linsey-woolsey were common to the 1812 period.
Patterns that were popular during the 1812 time were simple stars and basic nine-patch and four-patch variations. The War cut into fabric imports into America but well-to-do women already had stashes of imported French, English and Indian chintzes and calicoes in a variety of colors, and loved to mix large-scale and small-scale prints. Prints of indigo blues, browns and a touch of pink.