Antique Handmade Silk & Velvet Crazy Patchwork Quilt: C1880 English summer party 103 x 126cm

103 x 126cm

The panel is time worn and there are losses in areas of the silk embroidery

Named L’Hyver (winter) we think it must have been originally part of a set of four copperplate engravings depicting the four seasons

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Antique Handmade Silk & Velvet Crazy Patchwork Quilt: C1880 English summer party 103 x 126cmAn extraordinary and unique handmade silk and silk velvet patchwork quilt from America and dating from the last quarter of the 19th century, around 1880 (we can date this fairly accurately from the dress fabrics used). Made in rich jewel like colours with each patch carefully outlined with feather stitch in yellow silk thread. The centre of the quilt has a carefully worked geometric log cabin design (a pattern passed down through the generations from