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Family history aside, this wonderful American Victorian Crazy Quilt would have a pre-auction estimate of $400-$600. Jane Alexiadis is an appraiser with Michaan’s Auctions.
This colorful throw is a Victorian Crazy Quilt (note the capital letters; it’s an official quilt pattern name like Sunbonnet Sue), and it’s possible that it was made as a going-away present ...
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If you look closely, you can see the unfolding story of a well-to-do St. Paul, Minn., family stitched into the pieces of an elaborate Victorian crazy quilt, which dates to the 1890s.
Victorian crazy quilt In the late 1800s making a crazy quilt to display in the parlor was fashionable for women of means. These quilts showcased expensive velvet, chenille and delicate silk fabrics, ...
A Victorian-era quilt is already chockablock with many different rich fabrics. Look closer and see more layers of decoration. There are embroidered booties, birds, flowers, anchors, bucks and a ...
I emailed a photo to the conservator there who reported back that the pattern was a Victorian crazy quilt, which had its popularity in the 1870-80s. It means my great-great grandma would've been ...
The quilt was raffled off and the winner, Carol Rizer, has generously loaned it to the museum for this exhibit. Victorian Crazy Quilt – circa 1883 ...
The Vanishing Texana Museum in Jacksonville has opened an exhibit of quilts with some dating back a century or more, including this Victorian Crazy Quilt from 1883. Special to the News-Journal ...
One of the most compelling conversations of the exhibition exists between “Petite,” a painting created in 1963 by Grace Hartigan, and a so-called “Victorian Crazy Quilt Fragment” made in ...