Thread: civil war quilts
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Old 12-01-2013, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Holice View Post
I will comment on the origional post who said she wanted to make a unique quilt.

First. I have never seen an authentic Civil War quilt made up of many sampler blocks. This to me is a 20 th century invention. I have seen medallion quilts of thar era but no sampler. So, if I were making a "Civil War" quilt, I would
Pick a block which has some meaning or inspiration to me or family heritage. Make it scrappy or controlled, scrappy is probably more authentic.

Holice, How interesting you say sampler's are a 20th century invention. I would like to do some investigating about this . Do you have a clue as to where I would begin, you seem to know about this some and I would love to learn. However, I may or may not contribute to this invention.
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