Quilt Studies

Presenting this early crib quilt, made during the 1840 - 60's period for a well loved (and lucky) baby. The fabrics are a mixture of early chintz and early dress prints from the period.

While the pattern is a simple four patch, the fabrics that are used change this from the ordinary to the unusual, and lifting it into the realm of the rare, an early chintz crib quilt.

The quilt maker used a great chintz print fabric with a yellow background on two of the borders, and another unusual floral fabric for the other two borders and alternate blocks. These two fabrics set off the more usual, but still interesting, brown prints of the period used in the four patches. 

The small size of this quilt, and the combination of ordinary early dress prints and unusual large floral prints, make this quilt an interesting study. This is a good example and a lesson, in using different scaled prints when reproducing early quilts.

While I have seen and collected many antique crib quilts, this remains one of my favorite and most treasured quilts.