Quilt of pieced silk hexagons, creating what is known as a Flower Garden pattern. Made by Jacob F. Trexler, M.D. a surgeon and physician on staff at St. Joseph (and also coroner, according to donor).
Quilt is made of a plethora of multicolored silks, pieced with the English template method. Each small hexagon was stitched over a cardboard template (still present). Plain, patterned and textured fabrics were used, and even some pompoms as "flower centers." Large "T" for Trexler is satin-stitched in gold on a dark blue velvet ground at center. Multiple letters, initials and monograms are embroidered on individual hexagons. These apparently represent family members since many end in "T," such as EMT (wife Ella Moore Trexler?), AFT, ENT, MAT (mother Mary A. Trexler?), MLT, MLW and MWT. Several symbols are also embroidered (sunburst w/ face, wheel, etc.)
Backing is a mustard colored quilted silk fabric.
According to donor, Dr. Trexler had his quilting frame set up on the 3rd floor of his residence at 134 N. Prince St. His office was on first floor. Donor owns three other quilts made by Trexler (he made many after retirement). These are a log cabin (silks with a polished cotton back), a star and an unfinished hexagon.
Provenance: Donor inherited the quilts from the Trexler family. In addition to other quilts, she possesses a 1920 photograph of Dr. Trexler.
Very good condition, minor soiling and fabric deterioration at some fabrics along edges.
See in file, pages from "Uncoverings 2003" Vol. 24 for article with comments on hexagonal quilts done with the "English paper-piecing" construction technique and their resurgence in popularity in the 1920 and 1930.
Crazy quilt, atypical, of brilliantly colored printed silks, made by Anna Little Wagner of Schwenksville. The polychrome fabrics are predominantly green, but also strong reds and blues. Designs are mostly stylized and naturalistic floral motifs, with some stylized birds. Several prints are identical except for color variations, suggesting the maker had access to factory samples or remnants. Several prints have what appears to be an Egyptian theme, indicating a tie to the Egyptian Revival period of the 1920s.
Patch seams are decorated with red cross-stitched embroidery. Binding is a golden brown silk. Backing is a solid maroon silk.
Very good condition and stable overall, with perhaps half a dozen patches having minor fabric separation/splitting. At least two small holes of about 1/4" diameter. Some tide lines visible in three or four areas indicating liquid spills.
Provenance
Passed from maker to niece (brother William Little's daughter, Anna Marion Little Goode) to son Clarence Randolph. Late in her life, maker lived for a year or more with niece Anna Marion Little Goode and husband Clarence E. Goode, M.D. when they resided in Reading. Perhaps the quilt was passed to niece at that time. Donor recalls seeing maker's quilting frame set up in their home where she made traditional cotton quilts. Donor believes Littles and Gilberts were Mennonites, although not very active in church.
Note: Donor Clarence J. Randolph was born a Goode, but didn't like his name so changed it to Randolph.
Quilt of pieced cottons prints; star pattern. Four large stars of similar fabric arrangement on a field of red within blocks defined by yellow sash that also forms outer border. Eight-pointed stars are created with bars of fabric.
Back of green cotton floral print, brought forward to create binding. Quilting patterns are hand-stitched zig-zag, chevron, etc. Batting not evident.
Provenance
Jennie Crum inherited the quilt from her mother, Bessie M. Zeiters Crum (Mrs. David F. Crum). Made by unknown members of the Zeiters family and friends. Groups of women often gathered in various homes to work on quilts, says donor.
Donor's grandparents were Adam and Martha(?) Zeiters, farmers outside of Hummelstown. They built a home at 135 S. Hanover St. in Hummelstown for retirement. Their daughter Bessie married David Franklin Crum on Feb. 23, 1907 and inherited the Zeiters home. Crum was a time and record keeper at Brownstone Quarry outside of town.
Donor was the eldest of three girls, became a teacher and taught (all grades except 2nd) most of her life in the Phila. area, such as Elkins Park. Jennie Zeiters Crum was born Aug. 1908 and recalls quilting parties.
Bars or stripe quilt of cottons, using three different prints of brown-to-beige hues on the front and another on the reverse. Border all four sides, 7.5" wide, is lacy-edge paisley containing a branch of flowers, on a tan ground with pin dots and angular geometric shapes. Alternating bars in centerfield have the same width of 7.5"; of 11 total, 6 have stripes and five are floral. Red stripes alternate with an abstract brown motif. The five floral stripes have a 3-petal flower on a picotage ground. Backing is a Cotton batting. Cotton print on reverse is ovals, each with a flower within. Backing is a floral print on dark background, brought forward to create binding.
Quilting patterns are swag at borders and floral bars. Diamond grid striped bars.
Overall soil with some darkening. Many small to medium size holes, mainly in striped print on flowers(see sketch of condition in this file). Several large liquid stains and several small ones.
Reverse has larger ragged holes and a variety of strong stains. Deteriorated and detached fabric along central fold line; scattered deterioration elsewhere, especially on the dark dyes that used an acidic mordant.
Object ID
G.04.23.38
Credit
Gift of Sarah Muench, Heritage Center Collection, LancasterHistory.org
Medallion quilt of pieced and appliqued cottons and chintz. Design is a center diamond within a square within a diamond within a square, all within three different borders. Center diamond within a square has 9 large blocks of white cotton, 5 with five large appliqued circles of chintz and 4 with pieced triangles of printed cottons and a floral "Persian embroidery" applique at center. Next is a diamond of chintz., followed by a large square of pieced triangles in same geometric pattern as the center diamond.
The inside 6" wide border uses the same chintz pattern as the diamond. Middle border has a white cotton ground with pieced "overlapping" diamonds of various chintzes. Outside border is same chintz print of inside border.
White cotton backing is brought forward to create narrow binding. Quilt patterns used are waffle, flowers and cable. The chintz pattern used throughout was made in the 1820s, thus suggesting the date for this quilt. Batting is cotton.
Made in the Paradise area by Jane Weakly Leche, with help from Margaret McCausland Sample, mothers of David Harmanus Leche (1825-1862) and his wife Harriet Ann Sample (1828-1896).
Provenance
Maker(s) to son David Harmanus Leche (1825-1862) and his wife Harriet Ann Sample (1828-1896) to Harriet Sample Leche Keller (Mrs. Charles B. Keller, 1858-1951) to daughter Harriet Elizabeth Keller Shand (Mrs. James Shand, 1892-1946) to son and donor James Shand (1926- ).
Quilt had a stitched-on fabric label, now removed, with handwritten statement (c. 1925) by donor's mother, Harriet Elizabeth Keller Shand. Message was transcribed on paper by James Shand in 1991. It states: "Property of Mrs. Keller 85 to 90 years old. Made by Jane Weakly Leche wife of David Leche. Margaret (McCausland) Sample wife of Dr. Nathaniel Sample helped to sew on it."
Fair to good condition due to fabric deterioration, soiling and liquid stains. Losses & deterioration mostly in triangular pieces but also some large blocks of one chintz. Heavy liquid stains scattered overall. Liquid stains very visible on reverse. Generally sound structurally, although there are two significant holes through top and back, an L-shaped tear about 3" in from one quilt edge and a fabric separation hole near point of one center diamond.
Fabric label removed from quilt back and placed in file.
Object ID
G.04.37.01
Notes
Family genealogy in this file includes two pages of family tree offered by donor. See Ellis & Evans, pp. 922, 106, 661 and Biographical Annals, pp. 151, 1210.
Role
Quiltmaker
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Quilt, Drunkard's Path pattern, cottons. Pieced by donor's grandmother, Amanda Castle Sharpe and quilted by unknown woman in Landisville.
Top is white cotton ground and pattern is executed with a floral print of red and yellow flowers on a blue ground. Edges are all scalloped. Quilting patterns are
Drunkard's Path quilts were particularly popular in the late 19th century and again in the 1930s when a revival in quiltmaking swept across America. Quilts with this pattern are quite common.
Donor's maternal grandparents were Phares C.H. Sharpe and Amanda Castle Sharpe. Phares was a butcher and the couple lived at 30 N. Plum St. in Lancaster later in life after moving around quite a bit. They had four children: Kathryne (donor's mother), Henry, Herbert and Esther. In their last years, Phares and Amanda moved to a house on Martha Ave in Grandview Heights. Phares died circa 1936, after which their daughter Esther lived with Amanda. Donor recalls her grandmother making hooked rugs. The Sharpes were Lutheran, although Amanda's sister was a Mennonite.
Amanda pieced this quilt specifically for her granddaughter's (donor's) bed, about 1930. Donor believes the quilt was then quilted by a woman who lived across from the Mennonite Church in Landisville. Donor's parents were Albert Wohlsen (1894-1971)and Kathryne Sharpe Wohlsen (1895-1964) and the family lived at 452 Race Ave. Father worked in Wohlsen construction business. Mother graduated in 1912 from Lancaster General Nursing School.
Provenance
Given by grandmother, maker Amanda Sharpe, to her granddaughter Carolyn Wohlsen (donor)
From grandmother Amanda Sharpe to granddaughter, child of her own daughter Kathryne (Mrs. Albert Wohlsen) who was born 1895 and died 1964. Photo of Amanda in file (c. 1938) and photo of Phares & Amanda Sharpe, their daughter Kathryne S. Wohlsen and granddaughter Carolyn Wohlsen (baby), circa 1923.
Place of Origin
Lancaster
Credit
Gift of Carolyn W. Ripple, Heritage Center Collection
Four-block squares alternate with squares of whole white print. Four blocks composed of two red squares of a red print and two squares of a white print. Perhaps ten different red prints are used alternately. All framed by three narrow borders using a red print for two and a blue print for the middle one.
Quilted shell patterns are used throughout along with a rope pattern at border, all stitched in an uneven hand. Roberta would likely have been around 65 years of age when the quilt was made.
Both the Penrose and the Carrigan families were Quaker and attended the Drumore Meeting (12 mi. south of Liberty Square). However, Enos Carrigan converted to Presbyterian, and after Roberta Penrose married him, they attended the Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church. Enos Carrigan was a farmer (did not follow blacksmith trade of his father) who also helped found and was one of the directors of the Farmers National Bank in Quarryville as well as the director of the Southern Mutual Insurance Co. also in Quarryville. In addition, he was Drumore Twp. school director at time of his death. Enos & Roberta are both buried in the Drumore Friends Meeting House cemetery.
Provenance
Donor believes the Penrose & Carrigan families were Scots-Irish, as were so many of the early settlers of Drumore Twp. She & her genealogist cousin are unaware of any Welsh ancestors. Ellis & Evans states (p. 969) that the Penroses emigrated from Bucks to Lancaster Co. in 1827.
Donor recalls as a little girl seeing her grandmother Roberta and her unmarried sister Sarah Jane (who was then in a wheelchair & living with Enos Carrigan family) both setting up the quilting frame in the living room during the winter months. It was likely during these years that this quilt was made.
Crazy quilt of 20 pieced blocks of various silks, satins and velvets is said to have been "pieced by a Lancaster lady who claimed that many of the fabrics and decorations came from gowns of local matrons of a bygone era."
Quilt top, owned by Frances Longsdorf, was given a red velvet border and a heavy fabric backing by artist Gail Gray (present Mayor Rick Gray's wife) in preparation for an exhibit. Both ladies were members of St. James Episcopal Church and it is surmised that the exhibit was held at St. James, First Presbyterian Church or the Iris Club during one of the town fairs that were held downtown annually until about 2003. Donor was unsuccessful in determining the date or location of this exhibit, despite expending great energy searching. (Best guess is mid-1980s).
Quilt has the usual ornate embroidery used to make motifs as well as covering seams. Quilt also has less common raised-work flowers, 3 of which are formed with "pipe cleaners" then applied with tack stitches, while 6 others are worked directly on fabric with a similar product using no wire. Other blocks contain painted patches (15) of flowers (lilies, pansies. daisies, etc.). Embroidered names and initials are: Delia, Zanna, Florence, WJM, M, B, D, A and R.
Generally very good condition. Minor areas of
Later backed and bordered by artist from St. James Church, Gail (Mrs. Richard) Gray at some unknown time.
Provenance
Above exhibit sign on 22" x 20" posterboard states: "This quilt is on loan from St. James member Frances Longsdorf, to whom it was given approximately 25 years ago. It was pieced by a Lancaster lady who claimed that many of the fabrics and decorations came from gowns of local matrons of a bygone era. The patches are joined by outstanding variations of featherstitching. Local artist Gail Gray recently bound and mounted this work." Frances Louise Burkhard Longsdorf (Mrs. Kenneth) is then the earliest known owner. After her death (1909-1998), the quilt passed to her niece Mary Ellen Maurer of California. Deciding it should return to Lancaster, she gave it to St. James Episcopal Church. Member Carol Hartley was assigned responsibility to research and find a home for it, and she eventually offered it to museum.
Carol spared no effort to discover its history with few results. She talked to members of both churches (above), the Iris Club, Gail Gray, Ginger Shelley of LCHS and Trish Herr. Donor did find a "Delia Miller" who was listed as an Iris Club member in their 1927-28 Minutes. Her address was 544 W. James St. (see e-mail of 4-11-06 in this file).
Rectangular velvet postage stamp quilt with emerald green silk border.
Center field filled with multicolored squares (postage stamps) with a subtle design in center of 2 large diamonds and a smaller diamond overlapping them at center of quilt. Edges of border decorated with lime green zig zag embroidery stitch; corner blocks of border have an embroidered 4-petal floral motif in lime green.
Backing is maroon silk blend with stitching showing through from front along border.
Provenance
Provenance: Passed down in family; believed to have been made by one of donor's great aunts, Elizabeth Miller Thomas or Ida Miller. Ida worked for Judge Appel and lived in Intercourse (see family info in file of sampler G05.11.1). Both these ladies were sisters of donor's paternal grandfather Ray Bair Miller (born circa 1876).
Generally good overall; border is problematic. Border at one end is completely missing except for some loose threads and white linen fabric exposed beneath.
Object ID
G.06.11.01
Place of Origin
Lancaster County
Credit
Gift of Annette W. Miller, Heritage Center Collection
Quilt, Joseph's Coat pattern, made by donor's great grandmother Susannah Lefever Eshleman.
Center field is thin bars using seven colors repeating in the same sequence five times across the width. Colors are purple, black, blue, green, yellow, cheddar, red. Border all four sides is diagonal stripes of the same sequence of colors. Unknown batting. Back is a print of many naturalistic & geometric motifs of teal, pink and cream, all on a ground of navy blue.
Hand-quilted using four motifs: every other bar/stripe has cable which alternates with chevron, zig zag and diaper.
Provenance
Donor's great grandmother Susan L. Eshleman lived on a farm in what is now School Lane Hills. As a girl, she had been raised east of Lancaster (perhaps Fertility) and the Lefevers attended Mellinger Mennonite Church. She then married Hiram/Henry Eshleman and joined his church, Longenecker Reformed Mennonite.
Nine-block floral applique quilt, white cotton front and back. Front is pieced with 9 large blocks 24" square, each having the same large appliqued branching flowers. Surrounding blocks is an outside border of white, 7" wide. Narrow binding has front wrapped around to back. No apparent batting.
Floral appliques have a large red bloom centered on a 3-branch flower with green leaves and red buds terminating each branch. Central bloom has a cutwork center roughly conforming to shape of bloom with additional embellishment. Blooms are solid red cotton; stems and leaves are a green cotton print having tiny yellow dots on a faint grid pattern.
Densely handquilted in white thread. Intricacy & density make it difficult to identify motifs, but they appear to be circles, large sunflowers and other variously sized flowers, floral vining with feathery leaves lining only one side of vine, filfots, scalloping, etc.
Donor's written note states maker was Elizabeth Kraybill (1812-1894). See Notes
Provenance
Passed from mother to daughter as follows:
Elizabeth Kraybill Nissley to
Katherine Nissley (Engle) to
Martha Engle (Groff) to
(Frances) Ruth Groff (Fox) to
Donor Jean Fox (White).
Donor states quilt was examined by Heritage Center staff many years ago and was told the quilt was made before 1850 as indicated by the dating of the green fabric.
Very good condition overall with only several light stains on front and back.
Object ID
G.08.02.01
Notes
Elizabeth Kraybill married Jacob Kraybill Nissley (1808-1862) and operated a farm just NW of Mt. Joy Boro. They are buried in Kraybill Mennonite Cemetery.
See descent chart in file.
Place of Origin
Mount Joy Twp.
Role
Quiltmaker
Credit
Gift of Jean White in Memory of Martha Engle Groff, Heri
Log cabin quilt of wools, composed of 30 blocks five wide and six long. There are two borders: a 4 1/4"-wide outer border of four 1"- wide strips and an inner sawtooth 3"- wide border of red and blue. The 30 log cabin blocks are also made of 1" wide strips. All strips have a slight "overhang" along edges which hides the butted seams.
All individual pieces of this quilt are sewn directly to the quilt backing, which is a calico print of tiny green holly-like leaves on black. Consequently, the backing is is also pieced in the shapes of each section of quilt top (squares and two borders). There is no batting and no decorative quilting. The binding is a narrow woven wool tape with a braided appearance.
A small piece of paper stitched to bottom left corner of quilt front, now removed, has an old handwritten note in ink: "(Ade)line W. Kreider/ Cassel/ made this about/ the yr. 1867." The writer of the note was obviously indicating that the quilt was made in preparation for her marriage, while living at her East Hempfield Twp. home. According to the records of Rev. J.J. Strine, Addie W. Kreider, dau. of Jacob G. Kreider of East Hempfield, married John H. Cassel of Penn Twp. on Dec. 19, 1867.
Provenance
Provenance: Descent from Adeline Kreider Cassel
to daughter Fannie K. Cassel (Mrs. Hiram G. Kauffman)
to daughter Adeline Dora Kauffman (Mrs. J. Wayne Aungst, Sr.)
to son John W. Aungst, Jr., (great-grandson of maker).
Quilt descended in family homes all located within a few miles of each other, (south of Manheim (Lancaster Junction) to Landisville area).
Once-vibrant colors of the wool are now strongly faded and are thin, fragile fabric. There are strong holes, esp. in outer border; several areas of liquid staining. Binding is deteriorating and detaching with multiple holes. Unfaded area near corner where paper tag removed.
Backing has some holes/tears at corner and numerous slits/holes along edges.
Object ID
G.08.03.02
Place of Origin
East Hempfield Twp.
Role
Quiltmaker
Credit
Gift of Margaret C. Aungst, Heritage Center Collection
Tulip block quilt of cottons. Blocks are set on point with tulip blocks arranged in 4 columns of 5, alternating with plain white blocks.Tulip design has 3 blooms with 4 petals each. Blooms are a red floral print and stems w/ leaves are a green abstract print.Tulip blocks pieced in 7 patches and stem w/ leaves are applique. White borders are 4.75" wide except for 9.5" bottom. Back is white and wraps edges toward front to form narrow binding. Cotton batting separated.
Cumberland County, likely Shippensburg area
Hand quilted with white thread following still-visible pencil lines. Outer borders have an undulating feather interspersed with an 8-petal flower. The tulip blocks have horizontal parallel lines and the white blocks have a feather wreath. All quilting has double lines.
See Provenance & Notes.
Provenance
Letter of 6/5/1948, in file, from donor's great aunt Nannie (Nancy) Foreman Spangler, states the tulip patches were made by donor's great great great Grandmother Culp, being "at least 150 years old" and that she (Nannie) "had them quilted about sixty years ago" (c.1890?). Trish Herr believes the prints used in the tulip blocks are circa 1840s, confirming the story.
Thus, patches were made by the mother of Mary Culp Atherton (1812-1849), she passed to Mary, then to her daughter Ann Margaret Atherton Foreman (1840-1925) to daughter Nannie Foreman Spangler (1859-1951) who had quilt assembled, to grand niece & donor Margaret Wagner Aungst (1918- 2012).
Generally good with some brown scattered stains and a large stained area at middle of left edge. Apparently rarely washed due to still very visible pencil lines. Many seams in piecing are separating. Backing has acid burn on fold lines and section that was folded and likely touching wood of blanket chest.
Object ID
G.08.03.03
Notes
Nancy Foreman was the maternal aunt of donor's father, Marshall Wagner. Printout of digital photo taken by Trish of the Foreman sisters is in this file. Aunt Nannie Foreman Spangler is positioned at two o'clock. They were raised in Shippensburg where their father James K. Foreman was Sheriff. Nannie married Henry Spangler & lived in Phila. where Henry was a professor at U. of Penn. They had one child, also Henry.
Donor states the Culp gr gr gr grandmother who pieced the quilt patches is unknown at present, altho she believes descent went from a great great great grandmother Culp to an Atherton to the Foreman family. (Correct - wrz). Donor may have records or photos in storage, but unlikely to discover soon. (Deceased 2012)
Place of Origin
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Credit
Gift of Margaret C. Aungst, Heritage Center Collection
Quilt with lightning pattern, all cottons. Lightning pattern composed of alternating yellow and dark rust-red lightning streaks within an outer border of green (width varies 7"- 7 1/2"). Thin batting. Hand-stitched rolled binding has front green wrapped to back.
Cotton backing is mostly reds and browns in a medium-scale print of diamond shapes within a "grid" of smaller circle shapes, all on a ground of speckled brown. (see scan in file).
Hand-stitched quilting patterns: diagonal lines within the yellow, diamond grid within the red. Border has rope pattern of two twisting 6-strand parts.
Considerable liquid staining/soiling, front and back. Especially evident are dark liquid stains in yellow.
Provenance
Donor states family lore claims quilt was made by Emma & Annie Eshleman, two sisters of his grandfather Jacob Burkholder Eshleman who lived in Ephrata. Both girls died young of TB. The daughters were the two youngest of eleven children born to parents Daniel Eshleman and Mary Burkholder Eshleman. According to Lanc. Mennonite Hist. Society research done by volunteer Ivan B. Leaman, Emma (1864-1888) and Phinnia ("Annie") (1867-1889), the daughters both died young and are buried near their parents in the Groffdale Mennonite Cemetery.
Quilt ended up with Grandfather J.B. Eshleman who manufactured cigars according to the 1890 and 1909 Directories. Donor states he was a tobacco wholesaler. He passed quilt to daughter Mary Catherine Eshleman (married Dr. George Willauer) and then to donor.
Lone Star pattern quilt, all small-scale cotton prints. Star comprised of diamonds using a progression of 12 different prints in green, yellow, blue, pink and red. Star is done on a central field of a pink print. Outer border (5" wide) is a print of yellow flowers on a dark green ground. The 3/8" wide binding is the backing brought forward. This cotton backing is an abstract speckled grid of brown and tan. Thin batting evident.
Quilting patterns, hand-stitched in white, are: perimeter of each small diamond of the star; triangles & squares of the pink center field have unusual floral and foliate motifs, including a large feathery leaf in triangles and a scallop-edged circle filled with grid pattern in corner squares; outer border has undulating vine snaking through a repeating pattern of a large single leaf.
Earl or Ephrata Twp.
Provenance
Provenance: Donor states family lore claims quilt was made by Emma & Annie Eshleman, two sisters of his grandfather Jacob Burkholder Eshleman who lived in Ephrata. Both girls died young of TB. The daughters were the two youngest of eleven children born to parents Daniel Eshleman and Mary Burkholder Eshleman. According to Lanc. Mennonite Hist. Society research done by volunteer Ivan B. Leaman, Emma (1864-1888) and Phinnia ("Annie") (1867-1889), the daughters both died young and are buried near their parents in the Groffdale Mennonite Cemetery.
Quilt ended up with Grandfather J. B. Eshleman who manufactured cigars according to the 1890 and 1909 Directories. Donor states he was a tobacco wholesaler. He passed quilt to daughter Mary Catherine Eshleman (married Dr. George Willauer) and then to donor.
Hole torn in border, 23" from corner, is 1" long on back and 1/4" long in front. Several small brown stains on front and back. Back also darkened along some fold lines. One peach-colored diamond print has mysterious blue mottled stains(?) that likely were present before piecing.
Object ID
G.08.15.03
Role
Quiltmaker
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Quilt with Broken Star pattern, cottons with colors indicating Ohio Amish origin (appraiser suggests PA due to greens & pinks). Machine pieced and hand quilted. All solid colors, some polished.
Central large star of yellow, pink, green and lavender on a navy ground. Enclosed by a thin 1.5" wide pieced border of pink and green as well as on outer border of navy, about 7.5" wide. Boldly finished with a sawtooth applique binding of yellow.
Backing is two different lavender solid cottons. Printing on a selvage edge has "LANCASTER KALBURNIE" visible in several areas. Batting is a thin cotton.
Dense quilting is finely done in a contrasting color. Star has parallel lines with feather wreaths in between. Undulating feather motif and grid on both outer border and corners of the large square of navy ground.
Other examples of Broken Star: p. 115 in Eve Granick, The Amish Quilt; p. 52 ff. in Pellman & Pellman, The World of Amish Quilts
Made by an unknown Amish quiltmaker in Ohio or Pennsylvania.
Amish quilt with a Goose Tracks pattern is made of polished cottons in light green, dark red and light blue. Pieced Goose Tracks blocks of red and blue appear on a center field of green. Of the 25 blocks, 13 are pieced, alternating with the remaining plain green blocks.
Outer border, 12" wide, is dark red. Blue binding is one inch wide. Reverse is a crepe wool of very dark purple/burgundy.
Perhaps Indiana
Quilting is hand done in white thread. Plain green blocks have a feather wreath with cross-hatched center. Goose Track blocks have a large-scale cross-hatch pattern. Border has a symmetrical arrangement of large motifs spaced distinctly apart from each other. Smaller tulip at center and two flanking, unusual feathers leaning away from tulip. Corners are delineated by piecing & quilting stitches. Each corner is quilted with a floral reel using 4 tulip-like flowers.
Most evident is the faded and soiled binding. Large semi-circular dark stains throughout red border. Strange streak-shaped fade marks mostly following one center fold line. White muslin is basted along one edge of reverse to create a crude sleeve.
Perhaps made in Indiana due to extensive use of red and pastels.
Most prominent is the faded and soiled binding. Large semi-circular dark stains throughout red border. Strange streaks of fading mostly follow one center fold line. A crude sleeve of white muslin is basted along one edge of back.
Object ID
G.08.17.02
Credit
Gift of Joanna S. Rose, Heritage Center Collection
Log cabin quilt made of plain- and twill-weave wools. Quilt top composed of 156 log cabin blocks, 12 across and 13 down. Each block ( 6 1/2" square) is composed of 3/4"-wide logs with a central square of orange-red surrounded by brown and blue strips with the colors separated diagonally. Blocks are arranged in a Barn Raising pattern of concentric diamonds of blue and brown.
Three blue fabrics (2 twill & 1 plain) and two brown fabrics used. Brown twill is used through center areas and darker plain-weave brown in periphery. One corner block strongly varies by substituting a sheer camel brown instead of the darker browns, creating an anomaly. (Donor states this indicates a Quaker quilt).
The 0.25"-wide blue binding uses two wool fabrics, a coarse knit on three sides and a twill on the 4th side. Wool backing is a small-scale geometric print of browns.
Numerous small areas of stain, soil and holes. Some holes are large, e.g. 1.25" x .375", likely moth damage. Some of these holes are in the brown twill w/ lighter, heavier weft destroyed leaving the thin, darker warp threads).
Object ID
G.08.17.03
Place of Origin
Pennsylvania
Credit
Gift of Joanna S. Rose, Heritage Center Collection
Amish Sunshine and Shadow quilt with small 1 1/2" blocks composing center field pattern within a purple wool border 10 1/4" wide and a purple cotton binding 1 1/4" wide. Multi-colored small squares (including black) in center field are a mix of wools and cottons.
Hand-quilted in black. Center field has diagonal grid; border has floral undulating vine with ends tied in a bow at each corner. Leaves similar to rose leaves, but flowers have six rounded petals.
Backing is a medium-scale print of polychrome military medals with a dangling Maltese Cross, all on a field of grayish blue.
Several small, light stains/soil. Two small frayed holes of 1/8", each in border but opposite sides of quilt. One larger repaired hole in small black square. Significant fade pattern resembling tic-tac-toe grid, but with 3 lines each direction.
Object ID
G.08.17.04
Credit
Gift of Joanna S. Rose, Heritage Center Collection
Lancaster Amish Bars quilt of twill and plain weave wools, machine pieced, hand quilted. Seven bars, 3 dark red and 4 green, all vary in width 4.25" - 5.25". Surrounded by inner border, 3.25" - 3.5" in width, of dark green with corner squares of light green. Outer border is 10.5" wide of the same dark red as the bars. One-inch binding is a tan twill, machine-sewn in black.
Unknown Amish maker
Wool batting. Original red backing is covered over with cotton red check, machine-sewn in black around perimeter and tacked haphazardly throughout quilt with very noticeable heavy black thread extending from top to back. It has some puckering and fabric failure.
Hand quilted in black thread, diagonal grid throughout bars; inner border has pumpkin seed florets within a triple diamond pattern; corner blocks have a 15-petal flower; outer border has two undulating feathers gracefully criss-crossing each other with a horseshoe curve at corners.
Fragile with fading. Heavy fading within red border at head and foot; light streak through center bar. Binding is very thin and has multiple holes, tears and weakened areas. Obvious holes in red fields. Replaced backing with puckering and fabric failure.
Object ID
G.08.17.05
Place of Origin
Lancaster County
Credit
Gift of Joanna S. Rose, Heritage Center Collection
