Any Ideas About the Age of This Top?
07-09-2015, 05:59 AM
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My step-daughter has this quilt hanging on the wall behind the sofa in her family room. It was made by her grandmother, my husbands mother. The grandmother worked at a munitions factory during the war, so would have made it either before that or after. So 30s to 50s sounds right. She also did some beautiful paintings and embroidered pictures.
07-09-2015, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by sewbizgirl
It looks like these fabrics were collected from clothing made between 1920 and 1950. Not all clothing was cotton, hence the few that feel more silky or like blends. They most likely collected the fabrics and then made the quilt, during the 1950's, probably.
What an awesome find! And with your hand quilting this will be a real treasure.
What an awesome find! And with your hand quilting this will be a real treasure.
07-09-2015, 09:22 AM
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I have a couple of tops my Grandmother made in the late 40 or early 50's and your fabrics are similar. Some, though look a little newer than that,some of the florals on the left of the picture look like they may be a little newer. Good luck coming up with an accurate answer
07-09-2015, 10:40 AM
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I'm not an expert, but I would think they are probably 30's or 40's fabrics, maybe even some feed sacks thrown in. It's going to be beautiful when you finish. I don't think I've seen a DWR with the green melons with muslin for the center, very nice; soft and feminine.
07-09-2015, 11:45 AM
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I would guess anywhere between early 40s and early 50s; however there are so many reproductions sometimes it is hard to tell. The joining pieces look like old muslin. Is it hand stitched? Some of that fabric looks like the fabric in my elementary school dresses which my grandmother made for me every year; we would go to town and pick the fabric patterns from the feed sacks, which she would then buy for her chickens. That was in the late 30s and early 40s.
07-09-2015, 12:43 PM
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I recognize at least three of them as fabrics I bought as 30's reproductions in the 80's. So I don't know if they're from the 30's or more modern but the quilt maker was obviously going for a 30's feel.
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