Thursday, July 21, 2016

Sign here: Delaware Valley signature quilt

I collect and study early signature quilts, particularly those from the Delaware Valley -Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland and from 1840-1870.

(ps. I'd love to bring them to your quilt study group, shop, or quilt guild or show)

Here's a few "signature" details from and 1840's signature quilt from Delaware and PA.  Signature* because most of the blocks are not signed by hand but are inked or stamped.

 Bird stamped block and the antique bird stamp


  Detailed inked drawing.

Another bird stamp- Eagle and stars.

3 comments:

  1. Love those stamps! great red and yellow too

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  2. I love those old inked signatures. Wish people still wrote that lovely. They dropped cursive writing in school here.

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