Originally Posted by
QM
I wish I could. My sweet but unaware Mom let us play with great great granmother's quilt until they were destroyed. fortunately the up to 200 year old baby clothes got gentler treatment and are now in a museum.
When we came to India, my grandmother's and great aunts quilts were stored where I dreamed they would be taken care of, but alas... Our younger daughter happened to see the kids in that family literally pulling and stomping in the middle of one particular quilt. It was being torn apart bit by bit--cloth, stitching and all. She took it upon herself to confiscate what was left and take it home with her.
I stored others of their quilts with better results with a different family. Those are still preserved well, but I do not have access to photos from here.