The best you can do is shop around looking for a good quality solid fabric that matches the quilt such as Moda Bella or Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton and literally applique over the damaged area. You may also need to replace a section of batting, then hand quilt over the new fabric making it a permanent part of this beautiful old quilt to get it to look like the remaining sections of the quilt. There is an excellent resource book called Quilt Restoration A Practical Guide by Camille Dalphond Cognac. First printing was on 1994. I know that the Fabric Shack had almost 300 colors from the Kona Cotton line. Good Luck !!
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