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Many old tattered quilts were reused as the inside of a newer tied quilt. I have seen a lot of them at the museum.
I have a quilt of my grandmother's that has been done that way. The "new" part of the quilt may be as worn as the one inside. She was married sometime around 1880. My grandpa bought the first plot of land where I was raised in about 1883. He died in 1936 and my grandmother in 1944. My dad bought the ranch from his mother in 1943. I was born in 1937. This quilt was not used by us that I can remember. so I can only guess at how old the inside quilt is and even the outside "new" covering. Some of the fabric used was pretty thin and I discovered the quilt inside by spying a pattern through this thin material. I can tell that what I see is triangles, but not enough to know the pattern. I don't know whether I want to take it apart or not.