Hexagon blocks about 1830-1850
These hexagons are pieced over paper in the technique we might call English paper piecing. The seamstress basted the fabric over paper hexagons cut from old letters or ledgers and then whip-stitched the hexagons together.
If you'd like to know more about needlework techniques like paper piecing and whip-stitching and how to use them to date antique quilts you will want to go to my webpage. On the page called Clues in the Calico you will find at the bottom files labeled "Clues in Techniques." I've put ten different files up there with information about dating quilts using everything from applique to zig-zag stitch. It's an update to my 1989 book Clues in the Calico. It seems like this information, too big for a book, can be most useful digitally stored on a giant server---somewhere---where people can read it.
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These hexagons are pieced over paper in the technique we might call English paper piecing. The seamstress basted the fabric over paper hexagons cut from old letters or ledgers and then whip-stitched the hexagons together.
If you'd like to know more about needlework techniques like paper piecing and whip-stitching and how to use them to date antique quilts you will want to go to my webpage. On the page called Clues in the Calico you will find at the bottom files labeled "Clues in Techniques." I've put ten different files up there with information about dating quilts using everything from applique to zig-zag stitch. It's an update to my 1989 book Clues in the Calico. It seems like this information, too big for a book, can be most useful digitally stored on a giant server---somewhere---where people can read it.
Click here: http://www.siputflash.com/faqs5.aspx
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