A Delicacy of Quilting History – Origins of Quilting?
by:
How-To-Quilt Monthly Newsletter
Dear Internet,
You are receiving this ezine as a subscriber of amazines.com. These are excerpts from the How-To-Quilt.com Monthly Newsletter. You can obtain the complete news report with your free subscription at: http://www.How-to-Quilt.com. We hope you enjoy these tidbits of quilting history and trivia, and decide to visit the site.
How-to-Quilt.com News report May 2005
Several of us believe that quilting began in New European country as an outgrowth of a limited, inexpensive supply of fabric coming from Europe. Others credit the Mennonite
and Mennonites. According to Married woman Pellman and Joanne Ranck in their book “Quilts among the Plain People,” quilting is an ancient art, qualitative analysis
back to Egypt, China and India. These cultures discovered the insulation value of layering three fabrics together, and created covering victimisation this technique. The Crusaders carried examples of this craft virtually
on their backs – as thick
covering under their armour – and introduced quilting to England.
Lest we get carried away and deny the Americans their due, the combination of patchwork and quilting did merge in early America. Spell exquisite quilts were ready-made in Europe, the hardships of the New Earth and the inadequacy of fabric caused the women to become resourceful, thus patchwork quilts were created from whatsoever
scraps of clothing, bed sheets, drapes, flour sacks, or any else thing that resembled fabric.
What's in a Name?
Early in the 1900s, as much women became interested in quilting and wanted to expand the variety of blocks they used in their quilts, they would-be write to magazines and newspapers for ideas. Publications would-be list the requests in one issue then publish the answers in the next issue. The blocks would-be be publicized
with manual and a picture. Often the blocks were renamed to sound much current or to give credit to a city or state, and one block would-be end up having some some names.
This month’s featured block has only 5 some names recorded. What is exciting is that 4 of the names were given to it by the same source, Urban centre
Cabot. She has referred to this block as: Arkansas Star, Butterfly Block, Sea Star, and Star of the Sea. In addition, the Ladies Art Institution referred to this block as Little Rock Block.
View a image of this block and others featured this year at: http://www.how-to-quilt.com/patterns/blocks.shtml
Thanks to Maggie Malone's book 5,500 Quilt Block Designs for this information.
A Beginner's Manual to Quilting
Discover how to do a quilt victimisation this easy-to-understand, step-by-step Guide, now accessible in convenient CD format, an electronic transfer
from the website, or written
copy in the mail. Details are at: http://www.How-to-Quilt.com
