CONJS10 Postage Stamp with Triangle Border Quilt
c.1890
71 x 71 inches
Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
$2,800

It is unimaginable the patience a woman can have to piece together, by hand 5,776 ..7/8" squares! Usually when one sees a scrap bag quilt it would have been created by a woman of lesser means. However in this case, due to the double pink whole-cloth backing, we can assume that her status in life was upper class. The whole-cloth backing could have been unsed to create another quilt.

All piecing and quilting was executed by hand. The quilting pattern has nothing to do with the design of the quilt. The design used is concentric circles with the largest being 8" in diameter down to a 1-1/2" circle..and are joined by 1-1/2" circles. There are 53 concentric circles in all.

The fabrics used are mostly reds, whites and blues..there are no yellows or orange used here. We have a smorgasbord of designs..calicoes, stripes, plaids and dots. The main body of the quilt is surrounded with a triangular border 2" in width which includes a 3/8" seperately hand applied binding of the same double pink as the backing. Each triangle measures 2-1/4" x 2-1/4" x 3-1/2" and brings this quilt to a higher level.

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