tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57070216053941519662024-03-05T11:19:21.185-06:00Quilt 1812: War & PiecingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707021605394151966.post-78667264832787258592012-11-21T06:00:00.000-06:002012-11-21T06:00:00.486-06:00An Outlier Uncovered<br />
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<em>Unquilted counterpane dated 1782 with initials E.B.</em></div>
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<em>Collection of the Winterthur Museum</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1974 the Orlofsky's book <em>Quilts in America</em> gave us all our first real overview of the magnificent history of American quilts. Included was a black and white photo of this unquilted spread with the caption:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Framed Center Counterpane, 1782. Appliqued and embroidered linen and cotton....The bird at the top of the tree amd the pair of peacocks are cut from copperplate printed linen and cotton cloth that dates from about 1765-75....The coverlet is said to have been made in America from various English textiles." (Page 52 in the second edition.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The complexity of this design was hard to fit in with the other American quilts dated in 1780s (a low number to be sure. I think there are three others.)</span></div>
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<em>Anna Tuels' Quilt</em></div>
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<em>Dated 1786</em></div>
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<em>Collection: Wadsworth Atheneum</em></div>
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<em>Elizabeth Nace quilt</em></div>
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<em>Dated 1786</em></div>
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<em>Collection: Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum</em></div>
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<em>Deborah Wilson Quilt</em></div>
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<em>Dated 1783</em></div>
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<em>Collection: Daughters of the American Revolution Museum</em></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> But just because it was an outlier in the data----a visual outlier---doesn't mean that isn't an accurate date. I tried wrapping my head around it (as we used to say when the Orlofsky book was new.) If this quilt were made here in 1782 the style should be reflected in quilts in 1810.</span></o:p></div>
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<em>A detail of the center showing the copperplate printed bird.</em></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">A few years ago I saw the E.B. coverlet in person at the Winterthur exhibit and was pleased to see it labeled as Irish. Pleased because I no longer had to wonder about it's origins, its maker or fit it into my concepts of American-made quilts. E.B. is Eliza Patten Bennis (1725-1802) who emigrated from Ireland in 1788, taking this five-year-old bedspread with her, to Philadelphia where it surely impressed her new neighbors.</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><em>See Linda Eaton's Winterthur catalog:</em></o:p></div>
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<o:p><em> Quilts in a Material World for updated information about Eliza Bennis's quilt</em></o:p></div>
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Eliza's life is well-documented. She was born in Limerick and married sadler Mitchell or Michael Bennis. She gave
birth to numerous children and converted to Methodism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bennises prospered. She was obviously an
educated and upperclass woman; the evidence is in her letters as well as her quilt. In
1773 Methodism's founder John Wesley wrote her alluding to the fact that
brother Bennis had got <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very</i>
rich.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She phrased it more decorously.
"The Lord has blessed my husban'ds industry far above our expectation,
[giving] me both the necessaries and conveniences of life."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I like to think that as a prominent Methodist she was acquainted with fellow Methodist and British immigrant John Hewson who lived in greater Philadelphia during the four years Eliza resided there. I can imagine that he and his wife Zebiah enjoyed examining the prints and the workmanship in her spread.</span><br />
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Eliza's prosperity faded at her husband's death although her religious fervor did not. Her obituary:<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Mrs Eliza Bennis died in Phla June 1802...aged 77 years, after struggling with severe and unexpected trials, nearly the last twenty years..."</span><br />
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Eliza's quilt is important because it is NOT an American quilt. The story of how it came here is an example of how easily material culture transfers from one culture to another.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Read more about Eliza and her coverlet here:</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://irishhistoricaltextiles.com/2012/04/16/i-find-my-soul-knit-to-these-poor-sheep/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://irishhistoricaltextiles.com/2012/04/16/i-find-my-soul-knit-to-these-poor-sheep/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">See her son Thomas's 1809 publication of her correspondence with John Wesley here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Buy Megan Carroll's pattern inspired by Eliza's coverlet here:</span><br />
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<em>1810 Date Inscribed</em></div>
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<em>By Margaret Gundacker</em></div>
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<em>Collection: Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum</em> </div>
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After a year and a half of this blog on early quilts I have said about everything I have to say, so we are coming to an end here in November. What have we learned?<br />
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My goal was to organize my thoughts and teach myself about the first two decades of the 19th century in America. I wanted to give some guidelines to people interested in making reproduction quilts for the War of 1812 anniversary. <br />
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<em>by British cartoonist James Gillray 1805</em></div>
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I had read a lot about Regency England and wondered about Americans' parallel lives from 1800-1820. <br />
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<em>1811 Date-Inscribed</em></div>
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<em>Hewson panel in center</em></div>
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<em>Collection: Cincinnati Art Museum</em></div>
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I wanted to get a good handle on quilt fabrics, styles and techniques of the era to help in dating antique quilts too.<br />
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WOMEN'S LIVES<br />
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<em>The border is the same fruit print that Baltimore's Achsah Wilkins favored.</em></div>
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It's fairly easy to find information about English women from the upper class such as the Duchess of Devonshire to the middling people like the Austen sisters, but understanding the lives of American women is not so easy. I began with Cokie Roberts' book <em>Ladies of Liberty</em>, a group biography of American women from the era, and branched out from there using her list of sources.<br />
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<em>A German-born artist's view of Americans.</em></div>
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Over the past 18 months I have tried to share information about a diverse group of American women. One thing I have learned is that Americans had values different from England's. Upper classes here may have gotten into debt and enjoyed sex outside their marriage vows but these behaviors did not seem to be licensed by the same set of conventions that framed British and French society. Americans did not seem to gamble as much as the English and French. They borrowed and defaulted but not with the same abandon. People had affairs and marital separations but there was little public conversation about it. <br />
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<em>Collection: Henry Ford Museum</em></div>
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And of course people found it easier to rise above their origins here. I learned how many foreign-born people were assimilating into American culture, surprised to find how strong the Caribbean influence was in places like Charleston and Philadelphia.<br />
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I wanted to explore how quilt fashion changed, figure out what was new and fresh and what was old hat in 1810. I classified quilts by style, looking at set, technique, color, etc. I had a file of dated American-made quilts and I refined it, mainly by taking some quilts off it and moving them to the English-made list. </div>
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I had wanted to find more conventional applique quilts, particularly pictorial appliques but a year spent looking for them suggested the quilts might not be American. At the end of the search my view of American quilts made before 1815 is a bit more narrow than it was when I began. My view of English-made quilts shows a more diverse group.<br />
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<em>Collection: Shelburne Museum</em></div>
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Quilts grow out of the available fabric and my views changed about what Americans could buy. I began the search with a mental picture of a lively international trade, ships importing Euorpean and Indian cottons to ocean-side ports and inland harbors.<br />
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I knew the war was about trade but it was hard to believe that such a vital econony could be inhibited. I learned that trade came almost to a halt, disrupted far more than I'd initially believed. This may be the most important thing I learned. Imported fabric was in short supply and domestic fabric was rather unsophisticated. The wondrous variety of roller printed calicoes and fanciful chintzes that were common in England seem to have been scarce here until after War's end in early 1815.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On a single day in May, 1815, fifty-three cargo ships arrived
in U.S. ports, carrying tons of pottery, iron, paints, drygoods, tea and
pianofortes, according to Justin Winsor's 1883 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Memorial History of Boston</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By December American manufacturers, particularly textile
manufacturers, begged Congress for relief. During the War import taxes doubled, but the extra duty was to expire in 1816. Congress extended taxes on goods such
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cloth from India was a particular target. Indians could produce cloth so
cheaply that no American manufacturer could hope to compete even without the
international shipping costs. Cheap India goods were eventually taxed at 100%
of their value, which put an end to the venerable U.S.- India trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While India sold goods at cost, English merchants were so
desperate to sell the tons of fabric stored in their warehouses during the Napoleonic
Wars they were willing to sell for less than the manufacturing cost. Dumping,
defined as selling goods for lower than what it cost to produce them, became a
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Among the protectionists were Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander Dallas, for whom the 1816 tariff was named, and Representative Henry
Clay who had made his reputation by starting the war as a War Hawk, ending the
war on the Ghent peace commission and maintaining the hostilities as an
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">The discussion continues today.</span></em></div>
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infant Northern industries penalized Southern consumers, trading raw cotton for
finished goods. The Dallas Tariffs increased sectionalism as Southern politicians
promised to end import taxes and Northern politicians advocated maintaining
them. The North and the South began to see themselves as very different cultures with
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Another consequence was a decline in value for textiles and
other goods. In 1832 Congress collected information on the topic with
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">"In printed goods, a piece of print, (used for ladies'
dresses,) costing then 36s[shillings]. a piece, can now be had for 18s. and
22s. In 1816, a piece of common blue and white calico... 32s. sterling per
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shirtings, sheetings, checks, tickings, stuffs for men's wear, such as
granderells, unions &c; and also of calicoes, both gray and printed; it is
universally known have declined...from 25 to 75 per cent. [Gray calicoes are
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<em>Jane Valentine's quilt dated 1825-1830</em></div>
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A drop in price was good news for shoppers--- increasingly cheaper cottons
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But the effects on manufacturing and trade continued a long
financial depression that had begun when France and England went to war in the early 19th
century and drew the United States into the fight. It took decades to recover from the Napoleonic Wars.</span></div>
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<em>A Postscript on Henry Clay as the Protector of Home Industries</em><br />
Thirty years after the War of 1812 Clay received a quilt as a gift, made by Elizabeth Schultz of Pennsylvania, "cloth, thread and every thing of home production." That quilt is in the collection of Clay's Kentucky home Ashland and now on loan to the American Textile History Museum's show <em>Home Front and Battle Field.</em><br />
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One might understand that Schultz produced the fabrics by homespinning and weaving but what was meant was that these were factory cottons produced in the United States. The quilt was accompanied by a flowery tribute to Schultz's age (76), to Clay and to "the <em>Needle---</em>the NEEDLE, that implement and emblem of <em>industry</em> the source of all prosperity, of which throughout your whole life, you have been recognized and unrivalled advocate, protector and champion."<br />
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See a summary of this correspondence in a preview of <em>The Papers of Henry Clay</em>, Volume 10<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">A ship from a Baltimore Album Quilt</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">ca 1845</span></em></div>
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named John Robins had been doing well during the War of 1812.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">"He
purchased entire cargoes of such vessels as had successfully run the blockade
and come into the harbor, or were smuggled through Canada." In early 1815
he heard "a large lot of dry goods was advertised to be sold at auction at
the Tontine Coffee House... There were a thousand cases of dry goods to be sold.
Whether they had run the blockade safely, or been smuggled through Canada, I
cannot say. The goods were at a warehouse in Pine Street. They had been
exhibited a week. There were buyers here from Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston,
Albany and every city around.</span></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;"> for trading </span></em><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">and
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">"The Saturday bidding was very spirited, and the highest
prices of the war were reached; the commonest samples of unwashable calicoes
brought fifty to seventy-five cents a yard, such as to-day would sell at three
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">"Everybody outbid Mr. Robins...About dark the sale closed.
Every package had been sold. John Robins had bought none. He felt annoyed. His
stock of goods on his shelves did not amount to but a few dollars, a few
remnants of calicoes, which he could have carried on his shoulder. He went to
bed about eight o'clock, sick of his hard luck. He had just began to drowse,
when he heard some one down William Street shout 'peace.' "</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p> "</o:p>Henry Laverty['s] store was heaped up with goods bought at
the auction...Mr. Laverty was walking rapidly up and down the store and
swearing like a trooper....There were no buyers... He would sell for half
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By Monday <span style="color: #0b5394;">"every auctioneer was busy selling goods of
all kinds for a mere song." </span>Robins felt lucky enough to tell the story of
his auction experience with a dig perhaps at Laverty, who'd taught him the
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<o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The War of 1812 ended on Christmas Eve 1814 when English and
American diplomats agreed in the city of Ghent to end hostilities and return to
pre-war boundaries. The British returned Maine which they'd been occupying and
the Americans returned the area near present-day Ontario to British North
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reach the United States until weeks later. Andrew Jackson led troops against the British in New Orleans and won. Henry Laverty gambled on calicoes and lost.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Philadelphia Fourth of July 1819 by John Lewis Krimmel</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Philadelphians feted the War's heroes for years.</span></div>
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York's rapid commercial rise...was stimulated when the British selected it as
the center of their 'dumping' operations early in 1815. A huge surplus of
textiles and other manufactures had been piling up in England during the years
when the war had interrupted trade with America and the Continent; and
manufacturers were naturally ready to sell them for whatever they might bring."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What were they dumping? The warehouses were packed with goods that had been waiting for peace.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some references on the post-war textile trade</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Joseph Alfred Scoville <em>The Old Merchants of New York City, Volume 2,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></em></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">T.
R. Knox, 1885.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IR2YOYMplbMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=cotton&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=IR2YOYMplbMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=cotton&f=false</a></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Robert Greenhalgh Albion <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860</i>. NY Charles Scribner; Sons 1939
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quilt signed</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Done BY Ann . Dagg.S</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The .1. Of May . 1818"</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Collection <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Smithsonian American Art Museum </span></span></em></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gift of Patricia
Smith Melton 1998.149.5</span></em> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The caption for this quilt at the Smithsonian website reads:</span></div>
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hand-printed, indigo-resist, </span></span></div>
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In building my mental case for an early American style of conventional applique I often thought of this quilt, first published in a <em>Quilt Engagement Calendar</em> and then in Rod Kiracofe's <em>The American Quilt</em> (pages 52 & 53) where it was attributed to Ann Daggs, Rochester, New York. The quilt apparently went from family[?] to the antique quilt dealers America Hurrah to collector Patricia Melton Smith who generously donated it to the Smithsonian with the rest of her significant collection of calico and chintz quilts. As in the above Smithsonian caption it is now attributed to Ann Dagge.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There
are many Daggs and Dagges in the history of Rochester, but Rochester's history
is only a year older than this quilt. During the War of 1812 there was a small
frontier settlement at at the mouth of the Genesee River. In 1817
Rochesterville was incorporated (population
approximately 700) but the town didn't really grow until the building of the
Erie Canal in the 1820s. This quilt may have resided in Rochester during the
19th and 20th centuries but it was not likely to have been made in that frontier settlement.</span>
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,so much for trying to define an early American style of applique. The more I think about it the
more I think Ann Robinson's, Ann Dagge's and Louisa Brigham's quilts are
probably British. If there was a needlework school involved it's likely to have been in Great Britain.</span></span><br />
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I have long used these quilts as evidence that American women during the War of 1812 had access to the very up-to-date British multi-colored calicoes seen in swatch books and British fashion magazines like Ackermann's....<br />
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<em>Ann Robinson's quilt</em></div>
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The caption in this catalog of the Shelburne's collection reads:</div>
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"Appliqed and Pieced Counterpane, Floral Medallion Pattern 1814. Made by Ann Robinson. New England, possibly Connecticut. Cotton; marked 'Ann Robinson October 1, 1813' and 'Finished January 27, 1814.' 100" x 95". Museum acquisition 1954-439 (10-140) </div>
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I've been thinking about Ann Robinson's quilt for years.</div>
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I began a copy and have finished my 4 cornucopia. Being quite familiar with those cornucopia with their tulips and blade-shaped leaves I was surprised to come across this photo in Averil Colby's English book <em>Patchwork</em>.</div>
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Colby's caption reads: " 'The Isle of Wight' coverlet with applique and patchwork patterns in chintz and cotton dress prints, ca. 1820". She said in 1958 that it was lost and this black and white photo the only record.</div>
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Same cornucopia, a lot less stuff. I should have copied this one. I'd probably be finished.</div>
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The "American" quilt on the left, </div>
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Could it be that Ann Robinson's quilt is English? And my whole theory about an early American applique style is on a slow boat to the Isle of Wight.</div>
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In this 1958 book Colby also included a quilt made by the Sharman sisters about the same time as the Isle of Wight coverlet.</div>
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This quilt by "the two Miss Sharman's ca 1820" includes horns of plenty in the corners.</div>
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It has more in common with English applique such as this one that Colby also pictured "applique coverlet with a great variety of cotton prints." She dated it to about 1850. It's now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.</div>
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The human figures, the horses and other animals and particuarly the freedom of the unconfined applique seems to define a style found in the English quilts below. </div>
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An English quilt dated 1852 signed Lucy Hasell (?)</div>
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Horses and hearts are a recurring theme.</div>
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From an English auction in 2004---probably 1840s</div>
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Averil Colby drew up some of the appliqued images, but her book seems to have inspired few to copy these pictorial quilts in the 1950s.</div>
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A shorter, more faded piece that sold at an online auction.</div>
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This brings us back to Ann Dagge's quilt, dated the 1 of May, 1818. </div>
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Center of the Ann Daggs or Ann Dagge quilt</div>
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Ann Dagge's 1818 quilt, attributed to Rochester, New York, in the collection of the Smithsonian, looks like a singular piece of folk art but it shares several characteristics with other quilts from the teens. All these quilts found in the U.S. rely on the latest multi-color calicoes rather than large-scale furnishing chintzes. For the next few weeks we shall consider this style.</div>
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Like Louisa Brigham's quilt below Dagge's quilt has a swag border with triple leaves.</div>
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<em>Louisa Brigham 1818</em></div>
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<em>Found by the Connecticut Quilt project.</em></div>
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The triple leaf motif is seen throughout the Brigham quilt</div>
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Louisa also included a pair of reptiles (alligators?) appliqued from calico. A family member brought this quilt to a quilt day. According to the wife of Louisa's descendant she was born April 9, 1793 in Barre, Vermont. </div>
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Here's a detail of Ann Dagge's quilt (bad color) showing her calico birds. Also note her flat cookie-shaped roses and three-lobed tulips, something we see a lot more of in later applique quilts. </div>
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Ann Robinson's 1813-14 quilt in the Shelburne Museum collection is similar---using flat flowers and tulips with many flowers composed of hexagons</div>
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Robinson also included calico animals and birds and many triple-leaf designs.</div>
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With several cornucopia.</div>
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<em>Quilt inscribed Maria Whelpton,</em></div>
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<em>aged 19, Feb. 27 1828.</em></div>
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Here's a similar calico quilt, a little more orderly and ten years later.</div>
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Maria used small-scale calicoes and a lot of oval leaf shapes.</div>
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My photos are fuzzy because I copied a photo in the 1991<em> Quilt Engagement Calendar.</em></div>
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The page has been hanging in and hanging around in my studio or twenty years. Those calico leaves in a white square are so much like Ann Robinson's.</div>
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<em>1861 applique quilt by Esther Griffin</em></div>
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<em>Detail of a quilt signed M.S.</em><em>from the</em><em> </em></div>
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Did early-19th-century American applique artists develop a short-lived, rather unconfined style that was forgotten when block-style applique became the dominant style in the 1840s. Were these calico quilts from the teens derived from a particular school or teacher?<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">1830</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Madame Grelaud had the honor of owning the most fashionable
girl's school in Philadelphia from about 1800 into the 1850s. </span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1810 Mme. Grelaud's Seminary </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">was on the north side of Arch Street above </span></em><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">3rd,</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like many of the foreign women who relied upon a school for income,
Mme. Deborah Grelaud's past was a bit mysterious. She was French, probably a refugee from the colony of
Sante Domingue, modern Haiti, one of the white aristocrats who fled during the
revolution there in 1790s. Her husband's end is also mysterious. He may have
been killed in that slave rebellion or died after escaping to the United States. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em>Pennsylvania Gazette</em> in the fall of 1801.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The widowed Deborah with three boys and a girl to
support started her successful school, known for its French curriculum,
lessons in art and music and public musicales that entertained Philadelphia
society in the evenings. During the War of 1812 the three Grelaud sons, Titon, John and Arthur sailed
with naval officer Stephen Girard from Valparaiso to Canton. Her daughter Aurora taught with her. Both women lived into their late eighties, so the school had a long infuence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mme Grelaud's Female Seminary was expensive and exclusive. Among Amelia
Russell's classmates in the teens were daughters of many of the society women
we've discussed over the past year. Martha Washington's granddaughter Eliza Law
was sent there after her parent's separation. Martha Custis Peter's daughters
Columbia and America were among the many Southern girls who boarded as were Nelly Custis Lewis's girls Parke and Agnes.
Rosalie Calvert's daughters Caroline and Eugenia went when the Calverts had the cash to spare. Diplomat's daughters like Amelia Russell and Maria Hester Monroe boarded and Philadelphia's upper class girls attended the day school.</span><br />
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Later students included Varina Howell Davis and Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut.<br />
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Betty Ring, the authority on embroidered samplers, identified various sampler styles, using details such as eagles in Philadelphia samplers to link samplers visually to schools and teachers in England and the United States. She found none attributable to Madame Grelaud's. <span style="font-family: inherit;">Ring's collection was sold at a Sotheby's auction earlier this year.</span></div>
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<em>Another Philadelphia Eagle sampler, this one from </em><em>the Sotheby's sale. </em><br />
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See the catalog of Betty Ring's sampler collection here:<br />
<a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/important-american-schoolgirl-embroideries-the-landmark-collection-of-betty-ring-n08832/lots.list.1.html">http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/important-american-schoolgirl-embroideries-the-landmark-collection-of-betty-ring-n08832/lots.list.1.html</a><br />
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And read Ring's research here:<br />
<a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2012/important-american-schoolgirl-embroideries-the-landmark-collection-of-betty-ring-n08832/overview.html">http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2012/important-american-schoolgirl-embroideries-the-landmark-collection-of-betty-ring-n08832/overview.html</a><br />
Click on the three files of her work <em>American Embroidery</em> and 2 volumes of <em>Girlhood Embroidery</em>, a great online resource.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Once you read Ring's work it becomes quite obvious that sampler patterns were passed on by professional teachers to their students.</span><o:p>We can use a parallel logic to connect quilts from the early 19th century and wonder where these two quiltmakers got the pattern for their swag borders.</o:p><br />
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<em>Louisa Brigham</em></div>
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<o:p>These two medallion quilts dated right after the War of 1812 have a lot more in common than their swag borders with triple leaf details. Both are unusual for the time in their reliance on conventional applique of small-scale calico prints rather than on Broderie Perse or cut-out chintz applique. </o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maria Monroe stitched a sampler in 1814. You can buy a kit for the copy above here:</span></o:p><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Applique Quilt, 1813-1814</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Philadelphia. Sunday, February 15, 1815. "As it had snowed in the night, uncle
thought it would be too bad walking to go to church. I therefore stayed at home
and read...About one o'clock we heard some
one endeavoring to lift the latch. In great haste we sent a servant to the
door, who returned and told us there was a little boy there who said there was Peace.
We all ran to the door, and found Mrs. Lisle there, whose little boy it was.
She told us an express [ship?] had arrived from New York which said a British ship of
war had arrived bringing a treaty of peace.... Everybody in the street was smiling,
and Mr. John Kane came up and shook my hand, saying, 'God bless your father!' "</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sampler from Philadelphia</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">1817</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Amelia, a 17-year-old student, was the daughter of Jonathan Russell, an American diplomat who had the misfortune to be <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ambassador to England during the diplomatic impasse that led to the War of 1812. President Madison sent him to represent the U.S. in Norway and Sweden for the rest of the war. A widower, he left his daughter with her uncle while she attended the elegant Philadelphia school of Madame Deborah Grelaud.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Amelia had been born in France when her father was on a mission there. She spent a good deal of her youth in schools and took her middle name Eloise from a favorite teacher in a Massachusetts school.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Hundred Years' Peace by</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jonathan Russell is one of the Americans </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em>behind John Quincy Adams</em><em> on the right side</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">of this painting celebrating the centennial of the Christmas Eve treaty.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In 1814 after two years mired in an unpopular war, Madison sent Jonathan Russell and other commissioners to Europe to negotiate a truce with Britain in August, 1814. The commissioners signed a treaty in Ghent in Belgium on Christmas Eve but, as we have seen, news of peace did not reach America's largest city until nearly two months later.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">General Andrew Jackson won </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">America's largest land victory in the War</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in January, 1815.</span></em></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">During the gap between treaty and celebration Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans and British troops captured Fort Bowyer on Mobile Bay.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Amelia recorded Philadelphia's peace festivities. An illumination was an important part of every civic event---street-facing windows in every house were lit. Deborah stayed home from school on the Wednesday after the peace news, perhaps painting transparencies on paper or fabric through which the lights would shine.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #333333;">"Uncle
wanted me to fix some things for illuminations. We lighted our candles a little
after six.... I walked with [friends]. The illumination was
very brilliant, and there were a great many transp</span></span><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;">arencies."</span></span></span></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Political parade in 1860 featuring banners,</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">carrying on the old tradition of illuminations.</span></em></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Illuminations often caused riots, as patriotic mobs felt at liberty to damage houses without window lights. Philadelphia's Quakers were among those terrorized but during this peace illumination the Mayor directed the police to protect "their peaceful rights" to refuse to celebrate on religious principles.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Madame Grelaud had promised the students that she would throw a ball when peace came. The City sponsored a second ball in March.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">March 21st. "At
last the important day arrived, and I was in a great hurry to get my dress
ready, and I could scarcely think of anything else all day, such is the
disadvantage of balls. ...The street, from
Eighth to Ninth, was crowded with people, and I was really afraid the carriage
would run over some one, but fortunately they had wit enough to keep out of the
way. I do believe there would hardly have been more people assembled to see
Buonaparte than there was to see a parcel of carriages."</span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="gtxtbody1"><span class="gtxtbody1"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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musicians immediately struck up 'Hail Columbia.' It was more like a fairy scene
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Treaty of Ghent brought an end to</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Louisa Brigham quilt</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dated 1818</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">From the Connecticut Quilt Project</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Russell home in Mendon, Massachusetts</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="gtxtbody1"><span class="gtxtbody1"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="gtxtbody1"><span class="gtxtbody1"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amelia E. Russell's letters are published in 1900 in the introduction to her book <em>Home Life of the Brook Farm Association.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<em>Center of a wholecloth silk quilt made by Philadelphia Quakers</em></div>
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<em>Hannah Callender, Sarah Smith and Catherine Smith,</em></div>
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<em>Dated 1761</em></div>
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<em>Collection of Independence Hall</em></div>
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<em>Silk wholecloth quilts were a Quaker tradition.</em></div>
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Quaker Thomas P. Cope kept a dry goods store in Philadelphia in Pewter Platter Alley after the Revolution. In his diary he recorded the ups and downs of retail business through wars, embargoes, aggravating partnerships and ship wrecks.<br />
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<em>Thomas P. Cope (1768-1854) in later life</em></div>
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<em>Like many Philadelphians he was a Quaker.</em></div>
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Cope made far more money from the shipping business than from selling fabric and china in his store. He became an importer, a speculator in dry goods, and built a ship to sail between Philadelphia and ports in China, India and Europe.<br />
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<em>Detail of a pieced silk quilt by</em></div>
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<em>Salem, New Jersey, late 1820s.</em></div>
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<em>Collection of the Winterthur Museum.</em></div>
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Quaker dress relied upon plain colored silks, a commodity that Cope and other Quaker merchants imported for their customers. <br />
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Note the complex interlocked cable in the quilting, a pattern that became quite popular with later Pennsylvania quilters. See the whole quilt here:<br />
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A month after the War of 1812 began Cope was lucky enough to have a ship's cargo released by the customs inspector. The <em>Lancaster</em> was carrying tea, silk and India goods from the port of Canton. "We sold the Cargo this day at public auction at a very large profit....Calicoes that cost from 5 to 7 1/2 went for 45 to 56 cts. per yard."<br />
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When I visited the Winterthur Museum for their exhibit <em>Quilts in a Material World</em> a few years ago I photographed another early silk Quaker quilt with similar quilting pattern.</div>
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In October, 1813 Cope assessed the effects of the war on trade.<br />
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"The pressure of the war has been as yet but little felt by people in general. Those who had foreign goods on hand have mostly sold them at great profit, while the domestic manufacturers obtain large profits on what they make."<br />
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An advertisement from 1811 in a Philadelphia newspaper listing locally made fabrics. The Alms House was one of the public institutions where inmates manufactured fabrics. Note the "Fleece Cotton, for quilts, &c.," probably cotton batting.<br />
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<em>The "Thomas P. Cope" by Edward Moran.</em></div>
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The artist and his artist brother Thomas Moran came to Philadelphia on this ship in the Cope Packet Line. This detail shows the ship on its way to Cope's wharf.</div>
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After the War of 1812 Cope's Line of Packets regularly sailed to Liverpool with passengers and freight. Once trade opened up again profits flowed and Cope began quite wealthy.<br />
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A few months after the war was over the <em>Albany Argus</em> advertised "Fresh Goods at Peace Prices". W.H. & J. Hoyt announced a post-war shipment of "seasonable goods, which they offer at a small advance from judicious purchases." Do note that New Yorkers were still selling slaves in 1815. In the lower right hand corner "For Sale, a negro boy, about 15."<br />
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Thomas Cope's diary was discovered in the 1930s and published in 1978.<br />
<em>Philadelphia Merchant: The Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800- 1851,</em> edited by Eliza Cope Harrison (South Bend, IN: Gateway Editions, 1978)<br />
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See a wool wholecloth Quaker quilt dated 1813, possibly made in Burlington, New Jersey in the collection of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum (# 2002.012.0001)<br />
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Read Linda and Mary's blog on Quaker Quilt History here:<br />
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Another wholecloth quilt from the Winterthur collection.</div>
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<em>Quilt dated 1808 by Rebecah Foster (detail) </em></div>
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<em>Appliqued and stuffed-work eagle. </em></div>
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Eagles are among the earliest conventional applique in which the images are cut from small prints rather than transferred from a printed chintz. Eagles were popular even before the War of 1812.<br />
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An overall view of the Foster quilt. She combined embroidery and conventional applique using indigo prints. The image is <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">the Great Seal of the United States, featuring </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">a bald eagle holding laurel leaves and arrows with a shield on his </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">breast and a banner in his beak. The seal, adopted in 1782, inspired many </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">artists. </span></div>
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<em>appliqued eagle. Collection: Henry Ford Museum</em></div>
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A similar quilt in red and white. It's hard to believe this is appliqued, as the lines are so fine, but that's what the catalog says. </div>
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Here's a sharper picture in black and white. The maker is perhaps the Esther Bradford born on December 2, 1782 in Montville, New London County, Connecticut, who married Reynolds Johnson on August 25, 1821 and died on December 1, 1823 in Colchester, Connecticut.</div>
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<em>This piece was on the cover of Rose Wilder Lane's </em></div>
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And here it is again in colored yarns in an embroidered bedcover sold by Copake Auctions.</div>
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Here's an early Virginia quilt you may have seen displayed at the Rocky Mountain </div>
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Quilt Museum a few years ago. It's signed in cross-stitch: "Sally Lee Camden her Bedquilt"</div>
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Rusty who owns the quilt has found a Sally Lee Camden born in 1777 (or possibly 1785) in Amherst County, Virginia. Her
parents were William and Sybell Dent Camden. She married Peter Dent in 1807 and
changed her name to Sally Dent, so we can guess that the quilt was made before
1807. Sally died about 1850 in Bedford County, Virginia.</div>
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The Camden quilt seems to be a good example of a quilt made from domestically produced cotton prints. The simple calicoes in shades of brown, brick red, pink and indigo blues could very well be the product of American mills.</div>
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The quilt, dated 1812, is made of similar prints</div>
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There's really no way to tell if these basic calicoes are domestic or imported but they illustrate well the kind of prints being manufactured in the United States before 1820.<br />
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Even with all the smuggling going on in coastal towns like Newburyport, Massachusetts, imported yardgoods were in short supply during the War of 1812. Searches for fabrics in the Early American Newspapers database come up with few hits for words like "calico" or "ginghams" in 1813 and 1814.</div>
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<em>Newburyport Herald Fall 1813</em><br />
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Mary Jenkins had a little India Calico and some Factory Ginghams (which might have meant they were domestically produced.) Sarah Emery remembered Mary Jenkins's store at another location,<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Mary Jenkins's millinery establishment was in her house on
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Could this be the storekeeper's grave?</div>
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Mary born about 1746, died in 1837</div>
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Read more about smuggling in Newburyport at this post:</div>
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Women like Lucy Bakewell Audubon, living in the far west ---Ohio and Kentucky---might have envied women in Newark, New Jersey who could shop at Moses Hedden's.<br />
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<em>Newark Centinel of Freedom</em></div>
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In spring 1814, he advertised a "fresh supply of scarce and fashionable Indian and European GOODS," but he was still eager to buy or barter home woven fabrics, like these wool/cotton or wool/linen stripes below.</div>
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<em>Linsey quilt, probably pieced</em></div>
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<em>Baltimore Patriot, Summer, 1813</em></div>
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Small "manufactories" like that of Dupont and Company in Wilmington, Delaware, shipped "superfine cloth" to stores in Baltimore. Superfine often meant wool broadcloth but they could also be weaving or printing cottons.</div>
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Several manufactories advertised calico printing---meaning woodblock printing on cotton or linen or combination fabrics.</div>
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<em>New York National Advocate, 1813</em></div>
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One could go to Thomas Stephens & Company in lower Manhattan and leave an order for cotton yardage or a printed shawl, which would be printed to your specifications by W. Ovington.</div>
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<em>New York Merchant Advertiser, 1813</em></div>
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Competitor Anthony Jones had printed vests, shawls and handkerchiefs on hand to sell. Apparently, he had more printing business than he could handle was looking for apprentices (country boys preferred.)</div>
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For more pictures of the Camden quilt see this post:</div>
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Appliqued medallion inscribed in cross stitch "Mary Somerville May 26, 1818". Mary also recorded her age: 17 years old. Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Dorothy Jewell Sanders.<br />
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Early quilts in conventional applique often combined designs cut by the maker with florals and other images cut from chintz as in Mary Somerville's quilt. Her central design is what we would call a Princess Feather (or Prince's Feather---we have no idea what Mary called it)<br />
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The design is actually cut from a chintz but Mary ignored the print in cutting the whirling pinwheel and simple flowers.</div>
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In the borders she focused on the florals from the chintz, doing what we call Broderie Perse until she ran out of one design and then took up another. The final border is conventional applique, again a feathery frond. Mary's foresight in dating her quilt is evidence this rather complicated pattern was in use in the teens.</div>
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A fact that helps us date other early examples of the pattern as in this picture from the Pioneer Museum in Troy, Alabama. We don't see any furnishing scale chintz in this quilt. It seems to be smaller scale prints in indigo and madder.</div>
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Jerry Peak, the Museum's Director described this quilt in an interview.</div>
“The oldest quilt that we have in the exhibit is a
‘feather’ quilt that belongs to the museum and dates back to 1775. It belonged
to the Passmore family of the Monticello community and was made by Mrs. Sam
Passmore’s grandmother in South Carolina and brought to Pike County around
1820."<br />
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Dating a quilt from a tiny photo is folly---but the family story could be accurate. There is no fabric evident later than 1800. The fan quilting looks very "Southern, late 19th-early 20th century," but it could have been quilted later.<br />
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Here's another indigo version by Elizabeth Alexander, now in the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, estimated date ca. 1830. <br />
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See more of their quilt collection here<br />
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<a href="http://americanartmn.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/bonus-exploring-19th-century-quilts/">http://americanartmn.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/bonus-exploring-19th-century-quilts/</a></div>
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Another blue feather in a field of stars, this one from the Kentucky Quilt Project. See the Quilt Index file here:</div>
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Here's an indigo feather thought to be made between 1820 and 1840 by Mary Hicks Stovall, born in Virginia in 1751, died south of Jackson, Mississippi in 1845. It's on display at the Old Mississippi State Capitol and Museum behind the silver. It has the same fan quilting as the Alabama quilt---it's probably after 1830 and not really an early quilt. After 1840 we find hundreds of similar quilts. <br />
See the pictures here:<br />
<a href="http://travelphotobase.com/v/USMS/MSJE031.HTM">http://travelphotobase.com/v/USMS/MSJE031.HTM</a><br />
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A medallion thought to be about 1820 from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. The fabrics look to be a madder orange with a chintz border.</div>
<a href="http://mesda.org/collections/mesda_textiles_sprite.html">http://mesda.org/collections/mesda_textiles_sprite.html</a><br />
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A similar quilt that <em>Woman's Day</em> showed fifty years ago </div>
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They also showed this one that became known as Washington's Plume from the collection of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.</div>
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Here's a wholecloth quilt from the collection of the Museum of American Folk Art dated 1796.</div>
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And an embroidered bedcover from my files---the source or date quite mysterious to me, but you get my point.<br />
For more about Princess Feathers see Karen Alexander's post here. <br />
<a href="http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2012/08/princessprincess-feather-hats-or-trees.html">http://karenquilt.blogspot.com/2012/08/princessprincess-feather-hats-or-trees.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1812 on the far western edge of the United States 25-year-old Lucy Bakewell Audubon was wife to a storekeeper in Henderson, Kentucky, a town overlooking the Ohio River. Catering to a population of about 150 people, the store began the War in precarious financial condition. Lucy's husband remembered the country was "so very new, and so thinly populated that the commonest goods only were called for. I may say our guns and fishing-lines were the principal means of our support, as regards food." The couple were happy with each other, their two young children and their neighbors, "but our sales small....[I] only now and then thought of making any money."</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Henderson in red.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Surprisingly, for Lucy's husband never gave much thought to making money, the business prospered during the War. The family purchased a log home and began speculating in real estate, planning a mill and a branch of the store across the river in the Illinois Territory.</span></div>
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<em>A new store in Georgetown, Kentucky in late 1813</em></div>
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<em>Good whiskey or home woven linsey would be bartered the same as cash.</em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lucy <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bakewell Audubon <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(1787 - 1874)</span></span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In her log house Lucy created civilization on the frontier, presiding over a home with an extensive library, elegant furniture and enslaved servants who kept the house and worked the gardens, which had a small zoo of birds and animals John brought home from frequent hunting trips.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mill Grove, the Audubon family's Pennsylvania estate, </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lucy was British gentry, born into a wealthy landowning family. Her father inherited an estate in Derbyshire but sold everything and took his family to America in 1801 where he eventually purchased a Pennsylvania mansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neighbor John James Audubon, born in the French Colony of Sainte Domingue (now Haiti), refused to call on the British immigrants. "English was English with me... I wished to know none of the race." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But one morning he ventured into the parlor "where only one young lady was snugly seated at her work by the fire..." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite French/Engish antipathy the young couple married in 1808. They set off across Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains to Pittsburgh and the headwaters of the Ohio River, floating down the river to Henderson, an up and coming settlement.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">John James Audubon (1785-1851)</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Audubon realized that art rather than commerce was his destiny. He earned some money with portraits but nature was his love. Until his bird paintings began to sell in the 1830s Lucy supported the family. Like many other immigrants, her European education and elegance qualified her to run a school and teach as a governess, which she did throughout the South.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Read a book about Lucy Audubon:</span></div>
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<em>Lucy Audubon: A Biography</em> by Carolyn E. DeLatte, new edition 2012.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This well-worn example, signed MMT (or WWT) was sold in an online auction a few years ago.</span></div>
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and the style. The quilt or unquilted top looks worn and the picture from the
files of Historic New England is fuzzy but we can tell a lot about the
style. It's the combination contrasting cut-out chintz and conventional
applique that is so typical of early 19th century quilts. It's a design full of
contrasts--- the painterly chintz flowers in the vase contrasting with the
folky simplicity of the striped calico vase; the pink birds cut from a toile
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a favorite of mine. I love the flock of birds of a
different feather. I keep coming back to it because it's certainly an
interesting quilt for New England in 1815 and perhaps the only cut-out chintz or Broderie Perse quilt in their picture files.</span><br />
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You can see the file in the Historic New England database here:<br />
<a href="http://www.historicnewengland.org/collections-archives-exhibitions/collections-access/collection-object/capobject?gusn=GUSN-45010&searchterm=quilt">http://www.historicnewengland.org/collections-archives-exhibitions/collections-access/collection-object/capobject?gusn=GUSN-45010&searchterm=quilt</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'd like to know more about it. The catalog entry tell us
it's cotton and linen and the copperplate print is red and white. It's
49-1/2" wide. It was donated to the house (which house they aren't saying)
in 1950 by the accession number (1950.45). The quilt's date (which doesn't seem
to be inscribed) is 1815 and the maker is "</span><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Garrison, Fanny Maria Lloyd, d. 1923."</span></em></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wait a minute--- if Fanny Garrison died in 1923 and made
this quilt she'd have been way over 100. And wait another minute. Fanny Maria
Lloyd Garrison---could she be related to William Lloyd Garrison---that pillar of
abolitionist New England?</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Lloyd Garrison, 1833</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A little web searching found that William Lloyd Garrison's
mother was indeed Frances Maria Lloyd Garrison. Because she gave birth to a famous
son---he was possibly the most vilified journalist in mid-19th-century America
and a hero to many others---we can find out a lot about Fanny Garrison. </span><br />
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<em>William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator</em></div>
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grandchildren (she never knew them) wrote a biography of William Lloyd and
included information about Fanny with some of her letters. Those letters
survive in several archives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">First of all she died in 1823---which makes a lot more
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Frances Maria Lloyd was born in the 1776 in Deer Island, New
Brunswick (then Nova Scotia) into a seafaring family. Her father was an Irish
immigrant. She married sailor Abijah Garrison on December 12 (family lore
recalled the anniversary if not the year) about 1798.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1805 Abijah, Fanny and children moved to
Newburyport, Massachusetts, where Abijah hoped they'd be "less expos'd to
the Ravages of war and stagnation of business," during the Napoleonic wars
that so affected shipping. William Lloyd Garrison was born in December of that
year, followed three years later by a sister Elizabeth. Abijah Garrison moved
back to New Brunswick soon after but Fanny stayed in Newburyport. A single
mother, 32 with two boys and a baby girl, she took up monthly nursing, caring
for mothers and infants at birth and afterwards. This assistance at a "lying-in"
required she live with her clients for a
month or so and her own children were not welcome. Each Garrison went his or
her way with another family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the War of 1812 she moved to Lynn, Massachusetts,
home to tanning and shoe industries, where she became close to the family of
Paul Newhall. Mary Mudge Newhall gave birth to nine children, so one can imagine
that Fanny was in demand there. When the Newhalls moved to Baltimore in 1815 the
pregnant Mary invited Fanny and her children along. The new shoe factory failed.
The Newhalls did not stay long in Baltimore and neither did Fanny's son William
Lloyd who was lonesome for Newburyport. At ten years old he returned alone and soon became a newspaperman's
apprentice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fanny continued as a lying-in nurse in Baltimore---probably serving
rather wealthy clients, among them Elizabeth Pickering Dorsey, who lived in Elk
Ridge, a few miles from Baltimore. Elizabeth's father was Timothy Pickering, an
important politician in the young United States, and a particular friend to Martha
Custis Peter, whose quilt you'll see at the top of this post:</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rebecca White Pickering of Salem, Massachusetts</span></em></div>
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commencing with bilious fever," a description that could include any kind
of infection. Nursing was a dangerous profession and Fanny worried to her son
about epidemics in the Southern climate. By the time Elizabeth died in 1819, Fanny
herself was not well. Timothy Pickering asked Fanny's help caring for Elizabeth's
9-month-old baby. He complimented her nursing skills, writing that it was a "great
satisfaction to know that, in all times of need, [my daughter] had so tender a nurse."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But Fanny was too sick to work. She lived in Baltimore as an
invalid for several years, "on the charity of friends," she told
William, with "all the sensations of mortified pride." She died in
September, 1823, in her mid-forties, probably of tuberculosis. William, who
spent little time with her, remembered her as a pious, pretty and brave woman.</span><br />
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not a New England quilt---Fanny lived in Baltimore from 1815 to 1823 and it
seems very likely it was made in Maryland. It has a lot more in common with </span>these Maryland quilts made about the same time:<br />
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This medallion by
Mary Eby dated 1803 is the earliest quilt documented by the Maryland project.
See it in their book <em>A Maryland Album</em> by Gloria Seaman Allen and Nancy
Gibson Tuckhorn.</div>
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See one in the collection of the D.A.R. Museum here:</div>
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<em>Another from Dr. Dunton</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />See another post about Baltimore quilts<br />
<a href="http://quilt1812warandpiecing.blogspot.com/2012/06/cut-out-chintz-swags-in-rococo-style.html">http://quilt1812warandpiecing.blogspot.com/2012/06/cut-out-chintz-swags-in-rococo-style.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many of Fanny Garrison's letters are in at Wichita State University. See a short biography here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/pdf/74-6-a.pdf">http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/pdf/74-6-a.pdf</a> </span></div>
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Hexagon patchwork</div>
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<em>Detail of a mosaic top by Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur,</em></div>
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the James Monroe Museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia</em></div>
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Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur's unfinished top is one of the few 19th-century Presidential family quilts that survive. She pieced hexagons over paper in the fashionable style of the early 1830s. She probably made this quilt at her home in New York City. She was married to Samuel Gouverneur who was postmaster of the city from 1828 to 1836 when this quilt top was likely made.<br />
See more about the museum here:<br />
<a href="http://jamesmonroemuseum.umw.edu/">http://jamesmonroemuseum.umw.edu/</a><br />
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The hexagon pattern was so popular at the time that it was published in at least two magazines under names Hexagon, Mosaic and Honeycomb patchwork. First published in 1831 in <em>The American Girl's Book, </em>the design and instructions were copied in 1835 in <em>Godey's Lady's Book</em>. </div>
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In 19th-century versions, the hexagons are pieced over paper templates, a technique Americans tend to call English paper piecing.</div>
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<em>Hexagon quilt date-inscribed 1807 by Abigail Hunt, </em></div>
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Although published in the 1830s, the pattern was popular earlier. Several surviving American examples echo Abigail Hunt's dated version.<br />
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This quilt date-inscribed 1808 by Phebe Windsor of Rhode Island shows similar dark and light patterning and chintz-scale border. It was exhibited at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts last year. Read more here:</div>
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<em>Collection: Historic Huguenot Street,</em></div>
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Here a smaller quilt similar to the full-size quilts above with a label indicating a date of 1824.</div>
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See details here:</div>
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<a href="http://hhsstreet.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/flowers-blooming-in-deyo-hall/">http://hhsstreet.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/flowers-blooming-in-deyo-hall/</a></div>
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And more pictures on Bonnie Hunter's blogpost</div>
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<a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/05/hexagon-mosaic-1830.html">http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/05/hexagon-mosaic-1830.html</a></div>
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The design seems to have been almost as popular in the 1810-1840 period as it was again in the 1930-1950 period when people called it "Grandmother's Flower Garden."</div>
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Hexagons large and small in quilts large and small.</div>
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From the Museum of Florida History.</div>
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This one from Patricia Smith Melton 's collection in the Smithsonian includes diamonds among the hexagons.</div>
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The Smithsonian also owns this paper-pieced spread, </div>
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made in the West Indies.</div>
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Unquilted, it has a note with it: “Lappendehen Mtn West Indies familie Huh Taunay”
and, “Taunay family heirloom.” <br />
Click here for more:<br />
<a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=9577&gkey=169">http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=9577&gkey=169</a><br />
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<em>Collection: Missouri Historical Society</em></div>
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These mosaics might take years to finish. This one is probably mid-century rather than early.</div>
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The pattern was of course quite popular with English piecers, as in this table cover.</div>
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Here's one dated 1803 at last year's Winter Antiques Show in New York. I'd be inclined to guess it was English rather than American.</div>
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"Large hexagons, lots of chintz border" may be the way to go if one is reproducing this style in early reproduction fabrics. <br />
Read more about paper piecing here<br />
<a href="http://quilt1812warandpiecing.blogspot.com/2011/09/1-template-piecing-and-rosalie-calvert.html">http://quilt1812warandpiecing.blogspot.com/2011/09/1-template-piecing-and-rosalie-calvert.html</a><br />
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Quilt descended in the family of Martha Custis (Patsy) Peter,</div>
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Martha Washington's granddaughter.</div>
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If you have a good collection of books on early quilts you may have these featuring chintz cover quilts. On the left <em>Chintz Quilts Unfading Glory</em> and on the right <em>First Flowerings: Early Virginia Quilts</em> from the DAR Museum. The chintz quilts using the same fabric are both by members of the aristocratic Custis family of Virginia. The one at right, in the collection of the Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution, bears the initials of Catherine Custis whose husband was a distant cousin of Martha Dandridge's first husband, Patsy Peter's grandfather.<br />
See a photo of the quilt with the triangles in the border here:<br />
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Several quilts survive from the extended family of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, the first President's wife. Martha never lived in the capitol city of Washington. When her husband was President the capitol was New York and then Philadelphia, but her home was the Mount Vernon plantation in Virginia.<br />
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<em>The bed in which Martha Washington died.</em></div>
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<em>Mid-20th-century postcard from Mt. Vernon.</em></div>
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<em>Other objects, such as braided rugs, come and go</em><em> as fashion dictates.</em> </div>
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Anything associated with the Washingtons has been revered and a whole mythology built around them. The foremost repository for objects associated with the family is the Washington home at Mount Vernon.</div>
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<em>The first President's bedroom</em></div>
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Quilt top attributed</div>
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pictured in <em>First Flowerings</em>.</div>
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The medallion top above has been in the collection for a long time. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">An 1899 Guide to Washington and Mount Vernon
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Quilt descending in the Dandridge Family, </div>
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The fringed quilt above was donated by a descendant of Martha's sister who implied Martha had made it but, as the curators who wrote <em>First Flowerings</em> note that quilt looks nothing like the others attributed to Martha</div>
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The Dandridge quilt looks much like other Virginia quilts of the late 18th/early 19th centuries, so it's from Martha's time period (1731-1802).</div>
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The swag and bowknot border is similar to this early medallion by an unknown maker in the collection of the Shelburne Museum.</div>
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<em>Jane Gatewood quilt</em></div>
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This medallion dated 1795 by Jane Gatewood also has an appliqued swag border among the rather methodical ordered borders. See the picture at the Quilt Index to see the swag border better.<br />
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Association with the Washington family has caused several early quilts to be carefully saved. Some of them have little tangible evidence they were actually from the family or the early period.</div>
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In the 1960s <em>Woman's Day</em> needlework editor Rose Wilder Lane wrote a book about the history of needlework, including several Washington-related quilts.</div>
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This feather applique with a fringed edge is from the collection of the Ladies's Mount Vernon Association. It became known as Washington's Plume. It's hard to date from the photo but all that conventional applique indicates it may be after 1830 or '40.</div>
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<em>Washington's Plume</em></div>
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The <em>Woman's Day</em> pattern inspired Mary Schafer and a few other ambitious applique artists to make an interpretation.See Mary's quilt here:</div>
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<em>The Washington Guest Quilt</em></div>
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This 1930s medallion with an embroidered sailboat also has a relationship to Mount Vernon's quilts. In 1932 a writer for the farm newspaper <em>The Oklahoma Farmer Stockman</em> wrote a short article in the Good Cheer section of the paper for Washington's 200th Birthday<br />
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<em>A photocopy of the pattern</em></div>
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<em>February 15, 1932</em></div>
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"The Washington Guest Quilt"</div>
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"The last time that I was at Mt. Vernon, home of Martha and George Washington, I was so attracted by a quilt on the bed in one of the guest rooms that I sketched it for readers of Good Cheer. The center is a square of old-fashioned print showing a ship sailing. It measures about 15 inches each way. Around this is a border about two inches wide.... (she gave measurements for the borders.)We do not have a pattern for this quilt but anyone desiring to do so can easily make the quilt using the picture as a guide---L.C.P."</div>
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Her inspiration was likely this quilt attributed to Martha Washington, The Penn Treaty Quilt. Is that a ship behind the treaty signers in the Delaware River?</div>
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Her sketch looked very much like the pink version above</div>
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done in black and white,</div>
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just like the illustration in the newspaper.</div>
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This unknown maker followed her own plan</div>
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For other posts on the Washington/Custis family quilts click here:</div>
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Read about a piece of Martha Washington's dress here<br />
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<a href="http://www.raabcollection.com/martha-washington-autograph/fashion-americas-founding-mother">http://www.raabcollection.com/martha-washington-autograph/fashion-americas-founding-mother</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em>with the story that it was made by Abigail Adams,</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #45818e;">“Sat 26th Fine day – Mrs. Seaton sent us some fine pears in
return for some figs – I went to see Mrs. Tayloe, Custis, Rush, - & Adams.
Mrs. [Louisa Catherine] Adams showed me how to do the border of the Quilt....”</span>
(possibly in the 1840s) Dairy of Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton (1775?-1865) </span><br />
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In the 1840s everybody was making quilts including Washington's society ladies. We also have a few surviving early quilts from the upper class. Anna Maria Thornton's diary mentions quilting help from her neighbor Mrs. John Quincy Adams, but we have no record of any surviving quilts from any of the ladies Anna Maria mentioned above.</div>
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<em> daughter of President James Monroe is supposed to have stopped </em></div>
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1798 to 1865. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Published entries from 1800 give us
a picture of life in brand new Washington City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> S</span>he wrote of an unsuccessful shopping trip in the nation's
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">"—Went to a shop in New Jersey avenue, to look for some
black Chintz.—A poor little Store—there are too few inhabitants for any
business to be carried on extensively.—"</span></div>
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<em>An optimistic view of Washington in 1800</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p>Only the entries for 1800 have been published, although you might find the microfilms of the diaries in your library. It's a shame all her entries are not available in print or on line. One reason may be that o</o:p>fficial summaries of her papers at the Library of Congress
tend to be dismissive: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Wife of architect William Thornton. Diaries and notebooks
primarily describing social life in Washington, D.C., with extensive detail
about housekeeping and expense matters."</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna Maria, watercolor by her husband</span></em></div>
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<em>Shopping: Kaye England has a 2012 botanical chintz </em></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing is quite what it seems, beginning with a mysterious b</span></o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">irthdate and birthplace. The 1860 census lists Anna Maria's birthplace as "unknown", but she is presumed to have been born in
England in 1775. Her mother showed up with a French name in Philadelphia in the 1770s, possibly
with this infant <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in utero</i> or in hand.
The American Revolution was just beginning and the first few years of Madame
Brodeau's residence were under British military occupation, an exellent place to reinvent oneself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In late 1775 Robert Morris and Benjamin Franklin placed a
public notice in the<em> Pennyslvania Gazette: </em>"Mrs. Brodeau, from England,
Takes this Method of acquainting her Friends and the Public in general, that
she has opened a Boarding School, in Walnut-street, near the Corner of
Fourth-street, where young Ladies will be genteely boarded, and taught to read
and speak the French and English Language, the Tambour, Embroidery, and every
Kind of useful and ornamental Needle-Work..."</span></span><br />
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<em>Shopping: Metropolitan Fair, my latest Moda </em></div>
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daughter's obituary Madame brought letters of introduction "to the first
people of that city from persons of the highest distinction in England, [Her school] was liberally patronized as she was a
very accomplished woman, of elegant manners, and a perfect encyclopedia in all
that pertained to English life and society." According to newspaperman Benjamin Perley Poore, Mrs. Brodeau "displayed great ability as a
teacher." Betty Ring in her study of schoolgirl samplers noted the
"well-established boarding school for girls kept by Ann Brodeau," who
had 27 females living in her household on Laurell
Court listed in the 1790 census. That year George Washington considered sending his niece Harriott Washington to Mrs. Brodeau's but thought the terms, <span style="font-family: inherit;">"(especially the Board) appear to be high. ...Mrs Brodeau was
I understand once of Mr. Morris's family; this may occasion a prediliction in
that quarter." Washington was making a little joke about Morris's wealth and inability to hold on to it.</span></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. William Thornton 1759-1828</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On October 13, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">1790 Dr. William Thornton, about 30 years old, married the younger Anna Brodeau, then fifteen. Thornton was also an emigrant, born in the West Indies of a Quaker family, with a medical education from Scotland and England. He did not care for doctoring and found his calling in architectural design, winning a competition to design the Philadelphia Library Company's new hall in 1789.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thornton's first building The Philadelphia Library Company</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After their marriage the Thorntons spent two years in Tortola
visiting his family. Like most well-to-do Barbadians, the Thornton's money was
based on slavery and sugar, a Quaker contradiction. Thornton's sympathy lay with the slaves but his ideas for manumission and transportation back to Africa excited no interest in the West Indies. The couple returned to the
United States in late 1792.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1793 George Washington accepted Thornton's design for the
nation's new capitol building and the following year the Doctor moved to Washington
taking Anna and her mother. Anna's diaries record her husband's architectural
career, designing homes for the elite. Among his commissions: John Tayloe's
Octagon House and Thomas and
Martha Custis Peter's Tudor Place. Yet he never made a living from architecture,
an economic need President Jefferson addressed by appointing him superintendent
of the Patent Office in 1802. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna Maria's diaries also record her unofficial work as the
architect's assistant. She was his draftsman translating ideas into
drawings and maps.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p> </o:p>"I was employed in altering & making circles on a
map to shew the distances from the Capitol and President's House after one
which Dr T— had done at the Office—In the evening I was netting on a Shawl. —Mr
Middleton brought home a little table & Dr T's rulers.—"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">"I began to copy on a larger Scale the elevation &
ground plan of the House.—Mr Middleton sent home a Ruler, Frames for the Window
blinds—and a thread winder.—"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Thorntons lively social life included friends and
neighbors among the wealthy and the influential, entertained with flair in their home at
1331 F Street NW. The house next door was home to Dolley and James Madison and later John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams. Anna Maria's musical talents were in demand at the President's House and elsewhere. Diarist William
Dunlap summarized their charms, <span style="color: #134f5c;">"<span style="color: black;">
H</span><span style="color: black;">is company was a complete antidote to dullness</span></span><span style="color: black;">....The Doctor draws very well but he writes
abominably. His lady paints very prettily & is an accomplished woman." (Dunlap must have read the Doctor's unpublished romance novels.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Doctor bred race horses on their Maryland farm and
experimented with steam ships. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His reputation
as a temperamental eccentric explains feuds with capitol co-designer Benjamin Henry Latrobe and
fellow engineer Robert Fulton. He was also remembered as bad with money (no bar
to social status at the time.) Despite Tortola plantation income and a federal
salary he was always in debt with preferred investments in thoroughbreds, local
race tracks and North Carolina gold mines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna and William had no children and shared their home with
Mrs. Brodeau and several slaves. In the 1800 census three are listed. Thornton's
Quaker upbringing did not prohibit him from keeping slaves and spending the
money from slavery's<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sugar plantations.
But he remained interested in the slave's welfare, working for colonization
societies that advocated relocation back to Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After William Thornton died in 1828 at about 70 years of
age, Anna Marie was shocked to find he had willed his house [legally not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their </i>house] to the American
Colonization Society. (There is some diagreement as to whether this is true.) While she might live there until her death she could not
sell it to pay his debts. During particularly difficult financial stretches she
and her mother rented smaller quarters and leased the house or parts of it. At some point she sold it to Dr. Thomas Miller who permitted her to board there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In summer 1835,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anna Maria, her 88-year-old mother, slaves Maria Bowen and 18-year-old John Arthur were among those living at the F Street house. One hot night a drunken Arthur broke into Anna Maria's bedroom with an ax. His mother stopped the attack. Arthur ran away but was soon captured. The assault was national news, exactly the kind of retribution every slave owner feared. A civil disturbance targeted free blacks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arthur Bowen, sentenced to hang, was spared by Anna Maria Thornton's pleas to President Andrew Jackson. Instead of being imprisoned he was sold in 1836.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The elder Anna Brodeau died in 1836, leaving Anna
Maria without family. She lived in Washington until her death at 90 after the
Civil War. Virginia Miller who lived with her as a child wrote a memoir in 1914:</span></div>
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to her being an old lady or not I do not know, but as I remember her she was
very short. She always wore dainty white caps and the hair which showed in
front was brown. She had beautiful big brown eyes, keen yet soft, wore a simple
black dress with a little white shawl thrown round her shoulders. Her hearing,
eyesight, mind and memory were good to the very last and she was always alive
and interested in whatever concerned her friends and in the current news of the
day... Many times I had heard Mrs. Thornton speak of her husband having
invented the first steamboat and her grief over the little recognition his
talents and services had ever obtained...."</span></div>
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her obituary was reprinted nationwide, although she would not have been pleased
and might very well have been surprised to read it. Beginning
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: inherit;">"A correspondent of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Express </i>says: Mrs. Thornton was a daughter of the unfortunate
Dr. William Dodd (a Chaplain of George the Third,) who was executed for
forgery, in London, in 1777. His widow and daughter emigrated to Philadelphia
soon after that sad event, under the feigned name of Brodeau...It is believed
that Mrs Thornton never knew that she was the daughter of Dr. Dodd. Dr. Thornton
was, however, aware of the fact, having, probably, been Informed of it by her
mother before his marriage. He disclosed it some years afterward to Col.
Bomford, with whom he was very Intimate, and through Col. Bomford it became known
to other friends of the Thorntons."</span></div>
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Reverend Dodd and his hanging. His poetry books were sold into the 19th century. Described by a contemporary as "a voluminous writer, and possessed considerable abilities, with little judgment and much vanity," Dodd was badly in debt in the 1770s. Rather than ignoring
red ink as the rest of Georgian London did, he forged a bond to pay off his
creditors. The penalty was execution. Friend Samuel Johnson defended Dodd,
taking his pleas of innocence as gospel with the famous line: "Depend upon
it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates
his mind wonderfully."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of Dodd's minor crimes was marriage to "the
daughter of a servant woman, which was not considered a good match by his
friends," according to a biography. Another says, "He hastily united
himself on the 15th of April, 1751, with Miss Mary Perkins, daughter of one of
the domestics of Sir John Dolben." Friends attributed Dodd's downfall to Mary Perkins Dodd's luxurious
tastes but they remained married until his death. At his
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an unparalleled example of conjugal attachment and fidelity, and whose
behaviour during this trying scene would draw tears of approbation, I am sure,
from even the most inhuman." <span style="color: black;">He made no mention of future orphans.</span></span></div>
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at Cowley, Middlesex. His widow lived in great misery at Ilford in Essex, and
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Gordon S. Brown has used Anna Maria's papers and her husband's to create a portrait of early Washington in <em>Incidental Architect: William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washignton D.C. 1794-1828.</em> See a Google preview here:<br />
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Washington's historian Allen C. Clark used the same papers to write a biography of the couple in 1914. Read it here:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Read a biography of William Dodd here<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna Maria Thornton was one of Washington City's many residents who abandoned the town as British troops approached on
Wednesday, August 24, 1814. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She fled to
Tudor Place, the home of her friend Martha Custis Peter. Martha and Anna had an excellent view of the British attack from that mansion
near the Georgetown Heights overlooking the Potomac. Martha described the scene to another
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The British Army <span style="color: #45818e;">"announced their entrance into the city on Wednesday night by the flames that ascended from the Navy Yard. Next they blew up the magazine, and set fire to the Point, where there were a great many cannon."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: inherit;">"Then the Capitol was seen in flames; and, between eleven and
twelve o'clock, the President's House and Treasury Office. They then retired to
rest, I suppose; and we saw no new fires that night. Carroll's large tavern
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna's husband William Thornton remained at his post, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">head </span>of the Patent Office. On Thursday
morning the invaders, unopposed by American troops who had gone off in the wrong direction, continued their
destruction of the capital's public buildings, leaving most private homes and
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #45818e;">"The Mayor of Georgetown,"</span> wrote Martha,<span style="color: #45818e;"> "and
several citizens, went on Thursday to the British commander to say that we did
not intend to make resistance (as well they might; for I do not believe there
were twenty men in town), and they hoped that our city would be spared.
Cockburn replied, that, as our President would not protect us, they would. They
said it gave them pain to destroy our property; but, as long as we supported
Madison, we must expect it, as their nation was resolved never to make peace
with a President who was so much under the influence of Bonaparte..."</span></span></div>
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Office, saying they did not suppose it to be a public building the night
before, and had overlooked it. They were proceeding to burn the Patent Office;
when Dr. Thornton saw them, and begged them to spare it, saying they would
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>Today it is the National Portrait Gallery.</o:p></span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This silk medallion quilt is attributed to Mary Alexander Thornton Posey (1754-1837). A key to the numbered patches names donors of the various dress fabrics, one of whom is Mrs. William Thornton. We can assume this is Anna Maria Thornton although the two Thornton families do not seem to be related. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others whose dresses are pieced into the quilt include members Martha Custis Peter's family and Mary Posey's daughters.</span></div>
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<em>Martha Custis Peter</em></div>
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When you visit Washington take a tour of Tudor Place, which remained in Martha Custis Peter's family until 1983.</div>
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After official Washington was destroyed, many advocated moving the U.S. capital to a more established city, but the President's House and the other public buildings were rebuilt. Above, Rufus Porter's 1824 painting of what came to be called the White House.</div>
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In August we'll look at Washington society. Anna Maria Thornton's diaries are in the Library of Congress. Entries for 1800 have been published and can be read on Google Books. Here's a link to the <em>Records of the Columbia Historical Society</em>, Volume 10, 1907. See page 88.<br />
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They look so contemporary that it's hard to believe they were fashionable in 1811--- as in the swatch below from a London fashion magazine.<br />
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<em>Ackermann's Repository</em> featured pink dots in March, 1811.</div>
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No one called them polka dots (the Polka dance was a later fad).They probably referred to them as spots, as in this 1809 letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra. She was hoping to wear out an old dress so she could justify buying a new one.</div>
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"I have pretty well arranged my spring and summer plans of that kind, and mean to wear out my <span class="gstxt_hlt">spotted muslin </span>before I go. You will exclaim at this, but mine really has signs of feebleness, which, with a little care, may come to something."</div>
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The Austens used a spotted muslin for the sashing in their quilt.</div>
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Similar sashing pattern for an album block about 1900.</div>
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Krimmel,<em> The Quilting Frolic</em></div>
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But a detail of this 1813 genre painting by John Lewis Krimmel shows a quilt in the same sashing design.</div>
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So one would have to say that this interlocked design was in use during the War of 1812 (Krimmel exaggerated but his observations seem accurate.)</div>
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In Krimmel's picture of a Pennsylvania (?) quilt the block is plain and the sashing and cornerstone are pieced. This design is #1054 in my<em> Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns</em>. The proportions in the sashing can differ. The sketch shows a block that is 12" and sash that is made of 3" strips with a 9" x in the cornerstone.</div>
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<em>Detail of the Finley family quilt, probably about 1840-1880</em></div>
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The authority on the design and its name is Ruth Finley. In her 1929 book <em>Old Patchwork Quilts</em> she showed a black and white photo of one from her collection. She wrote:</div>
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"Another pattern, exceedingly popular in the early nineteeth century, was called 'Garden Maze' and alos 'The Sun Dial' But it was known sometimes as 'Tangled Garter' and 'Tirzah's Treasure'. The last name is no more than a label. 'Garden Maze' is good, since the block plan suggest a not unattractive landscape layout. But what on earth can be the significance of a 'Tangled Garter'?</div>
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Tirzah and her treasures is a Biblical reference. Whatever Ruth meant by "no more than a label" I cannot say. When I worked with Finley's daughter-in-law to republish <em>Old Patchwork Quilts</em> 20 years ago Finley's Garden Maze quilt was still in the family collection but it had been cut into two twin-bed sized pieces and finished with dust ruffles.</div>
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Here's another early version of Garden Maze sashing from the collection of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum (#1997.007.0540). It's attributed to a woman named Hurlburt, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1820-1840.</div>
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See the full quilt here.</div>
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Cindy Rennels has a late version for sale here:</div>
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Here are three early variations at the Quilt Index</div>
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Krimmel, <em>The Country Wedding</em>, 1814</div>
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John Lewis Krimmel painted several genre scenes (depictions of everyday life) in the years 1809-1821 when he lived in Philadelphia. Johann Ludwig Krimmel was born in 1786 in the German duchy of Wurttemberg and drowned in 1821. His paintings are a useful tool for studying fashion, interiors, social life and even quilt design in the teens. He certainly observed women's dress carefully.</div>
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See a blog post with many of Krimmel's pictures by clicking here:</div>
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And here's a reference to pattern names from Eudora Welty's <em>Delta Wedding</em> (1946) </div>
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<em>"What's the name of this quilt?" asked Dabney, arms on her hips.<br />
"Let's see. I think it's 'Tirzah's Treasure,' but it might be 'Hearts and Gizzards.' I've spent time under both."</em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707021605394151966.post-3925670918785471542012-07-14T06:00:00.000-05:002012-07-14T06:00:08.626-05:00Curved piecing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em>Quilt dated 1801 with curved piecing </em></div>
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This one, perhaps 1800-1830, is from an online auction. I looked up the pattern in <em>BlockBase</em> under four patches with curved piecing (#1519 or 1520) and found several names such as Pincushion, Orange Peel and Dolley Madison's Workbox, but all the names were published in the 20th century, 100 years after the pattern was popular.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">See Barbara Schaffer's blog with one from the Phebe and Isaac Nichols family of Newark, New Jersey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This detail from a pieced quilt in the Winterthur collection was made by Fanny Johnson McPherson in Maryland. They date it 1835-1850</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">See the whole quilt and enlarge it to see the wonderful quilting:</span></div>
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A version that is more complex but similar in coloring </span><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (<span style="color: #434343; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1997.007.0817):<o:p></o:p></span></span></o:p></div>
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It's attributed to New York, about 1820-1840 </div>
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A slightly different pattern (BlockBase #1527) with similar names Orange Peel and Melon Patch.</div>
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I showed this one from the Spencer Museum of Art last month, discussing the yellow-ground chintz in drab style.</div>
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Inspired by that ruffled quilt I did a mini for the AQSG Study in Pre-1840 Bedcoverings. I appliqued my curves. If one were looking for a good pattern for an early 19th-century reproduction any of these curved patchwork variations would be good.<br />
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See a similar antique at Willy Wonky's blog<br />
<a href="http://willywonkyquilts.blogspot.com/2011/09/some-new-old-things.html">http://willywonkyquilts.blogspot.com/2011/09/some-new-old-things.html</a><br />
See a great reproduction by Diane Finnegan here:<br />
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<em>Star with various chintzes from about 1800</em></div>
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Some of the earliest blocks feature right angle triangles and their cousins, stars pieced of right angle triangles.</div>
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<em>Sawtooth Star alternating with chintz blocks sold at Christies.</em></div>
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Many call this star a Sawtooth Star today. It's #2138 in my <em>Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns</em> with the name Sawtooth referenced as from <em>Farm & Fireside</em> magazine in 1884. The Ladies' Art Company published it as Evening Star a few years later. In 1935 Carrie Hall called it Variable Star.</div>
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This quilt in the collection of the American Museum in Bath is dated in the late 18th century. The date has been damaged but it might be 1770s.</div>
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<em>Quilt dated 1820 by Sophia Hooker</em></div>
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Briscoe Center for American History,</div>
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See the Quilt Index photo here:</div>
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This star is a nine-patch with a proportionately larger center square---the center square is twice as large as the corner squares. </div>
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And add more shapes. This one with the Turkey red points and am extra yellow square in the center square might be about 1830-1850. Quilters continued to vary the variable star over the years, but the early versions tend to be simple.</div>
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<em>An Ohio Star?</em></div>
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Another common star is the variation based on a nine-patch with 3 equal divisions. The square in the center is equal to the square in the corners. This star is #1631 in the <em>Encyclopedia </em>with many names, perhaps the earliest published name being Mosaic Patchwork #1 in Saward & Caulfeild's 1882 <em>Dictionary of Needlework</em> from England. Carrie Hall called it Ohio Star and that name has stuck. It seems just a simple step from the ubiquitous Broken Dishes to this design.</div>
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Stars alternating with a striped toile from Skinner Auctions.</div>
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The third common star variation is pieced of diamonds (#3735). It was called Star or Eight-Pointed Star in the 1890 era publications, names too generic for Ruth Finley who called it The Star of LeMoyne in 1929.</div>
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<em>Smyrna, DE in 1806</em></div>
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Here it is as a medallion border in a quilt dated 1806 in The Delaware Historical Society, the earliest dated example I've seen so far of either the simple star of the complex Star of Bethlehem. See more here:</div>
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So if one had some fabulous fabric and wanted to do an early reproduction--- a simple eight-pointed star would be a good choice.</div>
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Roseanne Smith was inspired by an antique shown above to make this star of William Morris reproduction prints.</div>
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To see Colonial Williamsburg's quilts go to this site and do a quick search for quilt. This particular star quilt is #119.<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">created in 1795 by the Dutch East India Company.</span></em></div>
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After Martha Washington's death in 1802 Mount Vernon was stripped of family possessions. George Washington’s will required that slaves, furnishings, equipment and quilts be sold. William Custis Costin and his wife Philadelphia Judge Costin took a china tea set from Mount Vernon to their home in the new Federal City, an heirloom that was then passed down in their family for several generations. </div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Costins also removed themselves from Mount Vernon to Washington in a transfer that remains mysterious. Like the tea set, they were property. Nineteenth-century family history says that slave Philadelphia (Delphy) Judge (1780-1831) descended from Martha Dandridge Washington to her eldest granddaughter Eliza Custis and husband Thomas Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Delphy was younger sister to Ona Judge who successfully escaped from the Washington household in 1796. Both were daughters of a slave named Betty and Andrew Judge, a white indentured servant, a Mt. Vernon tailor. "Soon after William Costin and his wife came to Washington, the wife's freedom was secured on kind and easy terms, and the children were all born free." Henry Wiencek in his book on the Washingtons and their slaves <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Imperfect God</i> traces Delphy Costin's freedom to about 1807 when records indicate Eliza's estranged husband Thomas Law freed Delphy and her children. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<em>The Costins built a house on Capitol Hill in 1812.</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They gave each child the middle name of Parke, a link to John Parke Custis, Martha Washington's son, who is thought by some to have been William's natural father. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Parke Custis, heir to a large Virginia estate, was given that middle name because his grandfather left a will dictating that only descendants with the middle name Parke could inherit the Parke/Custis money, land and slaves. Numerous white children benefitted from the naming rule until the Parke and Custis money ran out. William Costin’s reasons for naming his children in similar fashion are, like his origins, mysterious.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the summer of 1814 everyone in Washington was worried about the British Navy, which had settled into the area's waterways. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul Jennings, a teenaged slave in the White House, remembered the mood. People became "<span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">alarmed for the safety of the city, as the British held Chesapeake Bay with a powerful fleet and army. Everything seemed to be left to General Armstrong, then Secretary of War, who ridiculed the idea that there was any danger. But, in August, 1814, the enemy had got so near, there could be no doubt of their intentions. Great alarm existed, and some feeble preparations for defence were made."</span></span><br />
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<em>The long-lasting yellow dye may have been quercitron.</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One fashionable chintz for furnishings and early quilts was known as drab style. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">My dictionary still defines drab as a light olive brown, but today's common meaning is dull or commonplace. </span><br />
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<em>Camden, South Carolina, 1820</em></div>
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In<span style="font-family: inherit;"> 1812 drab style meant a color scheme of mustard yellows, olive greens and browns, a palette derived from a dye called quercitron, which can be printed with mordants similar to the way madder is printed. Different mordants produce different shades of green, brown and yellow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Describing quercitron’s color scheme as drab style confuses us because there is nothing dull or commonplace about it. Bright mustards set against dark brown grounds with shades of olive green and touches of blue can be quite vivid.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The colors came from a dye new to Europeans. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">About 1785 Englishman Edward Bancroft visited Massachusetts and found Americans using yellow dye from the bark of the North American black oak tree. He obtained an English patent for black oak bark and coined the word ‘quercitron" from the Latin </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">quercus</span><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;"> for oak and citrina, probably referring to a yellow fruit. When Bancroft’s fifteen-year patent expired in 1800, British mills created a rage for the dye called "bark" in the trade. It was inexpensive; it was colorfast and the color combinations were novel. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dyers could print cotton
in querictron's shades first and then print in madder to obtain the full range
of colors from yellow and green through red and purple, but this doubling of
techniques was expensive. Montgomery noted it was rarely done. However, Heather
Hansen in her 2011 thesis <em>The Quest for Quercitron</em> cites Bancroft's own
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">"In
many cases, madder colours are mixed in the same piece with those of the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">bark..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Mixing quercitron and madder printing methods was probably common, but the wide spectrum of color might have been thought of as a full-chintz palette. "Drab-style" defined a print with only quercitron or bark colors.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: inherit; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Arial; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: Arial; mso-hebrew-font-family: Arial; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial;">Jeremy Adamson dated the English fad for drab prints to 1800-1812 but it seem to have continued in American quilts through the first quarter and into the 1830s and ‘40s.</span></div>
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The idea of yellow and brown color combination, whatever the dyestuff, is often found in early patchwork.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Read Heather Hansen's 2011 thesis T<em>he Quest for Quercitron: Revealing the Story of a Forgotten Dye</em>. She's studied the dye extensively and Bancroft's dashing life (he was a spy and has been accused of murder.) She also includes many samples of drab-style prints.<br />
Click here and download the PDF:</span><br />
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