Today's antique hand quilted quilt from the Starley Quilt Collection is a Caesar's Crown quilt It features decorative quilted details and a beautiful cable border.
It has delightful bright red/green/yellow print fabrics and each block has a signature and an inscription. The crowning detail is the ownership/dedication block "Elizabeth Bickel or Bectel -His (sic) Property In the Year of Our Lord 1851".
This beautiful signature/friendship quilt is from Berks and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The names were inscribed by a professional paid signer, known as a scrivener.
Giant Leopard Moth
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“Giant Leopard Moth”
17x19"
Copyright 2024 Susan Brubaker Knapp
This is the Giant Leopard Moth (*Hypercompe scribonia*). Cotton batik
fabric, cotton ba...
3 hours ago
Wow, Beautiful!
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