Antique Folk Art Crazy Patchwork Embroidered Quilt Dated & Initialled: C1880s America

Item Details.
Another extraordinary handmade silk and silk velvet crazy patchwork quilt from our studio collection and dated 1886/87, America.

Made in rich jewel-like coloured silks and velvets with details including initials and dates worked in silk embroidery. Also hand embroidered floral motifs, scissors, horseshoes and an umbrella.

Patchworks such as this fine example are the originators if recycling at its best, using tiny scraps and found pieces this quilt includes dress silks and velvets and cuttings from ribbons and such like.

Probably made for a wedding quilt, perhaps by a mother for her daughter’s trousseau, no doubt some of the fabrics used would have been recognisable as part of family dresses etc.

The quilt has been backed at a later date - possibly the 1930s? with a scarlet, silky lining.

This is folk art at its best and deserves to be displayed on a wall. You would never get tired of looking at it there is so much detail and interest.

Measurements:
172 x 172cm

Condition.
The quilt is in very good antique condition with some rubs and losses to the surface of some of the thinner silk dress fabrics. These could easily be replaced and or repaired. We have spent hours securing and stitching some loose patches so that they are not lost.
All of the textiles we sell are genuine antiques and may have some the idiosyncrasies and small flaws that you would expect in an antique textile.