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One popular pattern was the Log Cabin. [6] Log Cabin quilts were mentioned in print as early as 1863, with archival examples dating back to 1874. Log Cabin quilts in the 19th century were popular enough to have their own county fair prize category. [7] To support the Union Army, Log Cabin quilts were sold in fundraisers.
White wholecloth quilts with high-quality, elaborate quilting, and often trapunto decorations as well, are also traditional for weddings. A superstition existed that it was bad luck to incorporate heart motifs in a wedding quilt (the couples’ hearts might be broken if such a design were included), so tulip motifs were often used to symbolize ...
Log Cabin [1] Nebraska Pinwheel [1] Nebraska State Block [1] Nine Patch [1] [2] Pinwheel [1] Roman Square [2] Roman Stripe [2] Rose of Sharon, or Whig Rose [1] School House [1] Sunbonnet Babies [1] [2] Tumbling Blocks [2] Wild Goose Chase [1] Quilt blocks on bank barn: Camelot Star, Irish Chain Block, Shoo Fly Block, Ohio Star and Maple Leaf Block
They are sewn together in stacked rows to make a larger composition. Often strips of contrasting fabric forming a lattice separate the patchwork blocks from each other. Some common patchwork block names are Log Cabin, Drunkard's Path, Bear's Paw, Tulip, and Nine Patch. A unique form of patchwork quilt is the crazy quilt.
"Charlotte Angus, Log Cabin Quilt, 1935/1942, watercolor and graphite on paper, overall: 41.7 x 36 cm (16 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.), Index of American Design, 1943.8.9370" IIM version 4
Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.