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Originally Posted by mzsooz
Not experienced enough to comment on the quilting but the fabrics remind me of 60's. The minute I saw them I was reminded of my grandma.
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Originally Posted by jljack
Originally Posted by lucky_alf2
I learned recently that a quilt is dated by it's newest fabric/materials, so if you are trying to preserve it's antique-ness then try and find old fabric to match.
. The fabrics in this quilt are most certainly mostly from the 30's, with a few from the early 40s. Most people don't think there were "modern" prints in the 30's, but there really were some quite modern looking fabrics back then. ty ladies you all have been so helpful |
Originally Posted by hazeljane
I see one fabric that I would put as early 50's, but all the rest look like 30's or 40's. There were lots of very modern fabrics in the 30's and 40's, but there is a black with circles that looks really 50's to my eye. I collect and love mid-mod fabrics. I would say its a quilt made in the early 50's or late late 40's, with earlier fabrics as well. It's beautiful. Quilting it will actually help to preserve it and stabilize it. What a great find!
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Originally Posted by craftybear
wow, love it!
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If you machine or hand quilt it now, it would date it to this time. Its when a quilt is finished when the date range it was made begins. I would probably use it to display on the wall to keep original.
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That's a beautiful quilt and I would machine quilt it (maybe because I have a long arm). Better done and useable than forever put away.
Maybe this will give you an idea of the time period. I have 120 blocks that were made by my great-grandmother. My grandmother showed them to me a long time ago, they were kept in her hope chest. When I received them after my parents passed away, I opened the bag and there were the pattern pieces cut out of a newspaper called Home and Farm in Arkansas. There was a date in one of the articles of 1936. |
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