Quilts

This highly unusual textile is executed in a style called weftwork. Made of cotton and wool, it dates to the mid-19th century. While there is at least one known maker of weftwork bed...

RED, WHITE, AND BLUE CALICO "SEVEN SISTERS" QUILT, A PATRIOTIC VARIANT WITH 6-POINTED STARS AND RIVETING VISUAL GRAPHICS, CIRCA 1890-1910 This exceptional...

Throw designed by Simon Key Bertman, Sweden, 2000s Pure new wool. Prototype. Measures: L 180 cm/ 5'11” W 130 cm/ 4'3”.        

Fine quality velvet American quilt in the "log cabin" patchwork pattern, indicative of barn raising quilts made in the late 1800s in Pennsylvania. Made in the 1920s, handstitched, an...

Jeanette Farrier Indian quilt Kantha quilt made from a patchwork of layers of cotton sari joined by a simple running stitch that produces a rippled...

Jeanette Farrier Indian Quilt Kantha quilt made from a patchwork of layers of cotton sari joined by a simple running stitch that produces a rippled...

Blue and white "Liberty" coverlet, made in 1849 for Aurissa A. Gillett by weaver James Vanness, in Palmyra, New York, a very scarce variety with exceptional imagery: Coverlets are loom-woven bedspreads. Unlike quilts, which are pieced from commercially produced fabrics, coverlets are painstakingly created from the ground up, so-to-speak, woven line-by-line. In America, many are jacquard-woven, Beiderwand textiles, the latter meaning that they are simultaneously made in two layers, one light and one dark, that mirror image one-another on the obverse and reverse. The resulting coverlet has what has been commonly termed a "summer" and "winter" side rather than having a front and back. Dated coverlets began to appear in the early 1770s and were made through approximately the 1880s, though the most commonly occurring dates fall within the 1830s-1850s era. There were two basic genres, geometric and what is known as "figured and fancy." The latter of these regularly included floral elements, animals, buildings, and people, as well as text. Despite modern preconceptions, these were almost exclusively woven by men. Coverlets come in so many different forms that one could never hope to encounter them all. Some had patriotic imagery, which causes them to bridge categories in antique collecting. Many can be traced to certain areas of the country by dyes and other traits. The example presented in this write up is a extremely scarce. Made in Palmyra, New York, both the date, "1849," and name of the maker, "J. Vanness" [James Vanness, 1811 - 1872], are recorded in the weaving itself, along with the name of the person for whom it was made, Aurissa A. Gillett. Two-color, blue-and-white coverlets...

Jeanette Farrier Indian quilt Kantha quilt made from a patchwork of layers of cotton sari joined by a simple running stitch that produces a rippled...

Jeanette Farrier Indian Quilt Kantha quilt made from a patchwork of layers of cotton sari joined by a simple running stitch that produces a rippled...

Swedish cushion cover, Probably Jerrestads district, Southern Skane, Early-mid 19th century. The cushion cover (Agedyna), with bands of traditional design motifs is probably from the Jerrestad district of Southern Sweden. Akdyna (Agedyna) is the designation of a cushion cover for use on the horse...

OUTSTANDING CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC QUILT IN A DIAMOND-IN-A-SQUARE PATTERN SOURCED FROM PETERSON'S MAGAZINE, JULY 1861, MODIFIED BY THE MAKER TO INCLUDE...

A beautiful embroidered cover from Uzbekistan, created in the "Suzani" style, with silk stitching on cotton cloth. This was made after the post-Soviet liberation of the country that ...