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On TikTok, user @whimsybarn shows her simple, no-sew method to turn vintage quilts into adorable decor pieces for a tabletop or wall. Her DIY uses thrifted items, like old quilts and quilt scraps ...
With so much reproduction signage on the market, the real deal has become even more coveted. Pennsylvania-based Beth Coller, ...
Tips for estimating an unsigned vintage quilt’s true age. If you can see dark spots in the quilt when held up to a strong light or sunny window, they may be cotton seeds.
Betsey Telford-Goodwin didn’t know much about quilts when an acquaintance in Massachusetts asked her to hunt around for some antique textiles from the American West to decorate her house. It was 1987, ...
Nancy Blackwood collected her family’s antique quilts for decades. She was the keeper of her grandmother’s, her great-grandmother’s and her mother-in-law’s creations. Blackw… ...
The best quilts, from cotton to deadstock and velvet to kanthas, and from brands including Hawkins New York, small Etsy sellers, Parachute, Brooklinen, Coyuchi, and Matouk.
Psychic Outlaw is another brand crafting coats out of what were once antique quilts. There are plenty more examples—including Chopova Lowena, which is well-known in high fashion circles.
Antique collectors search for centuries-old mosaic, star, log cabin and broken dishes imagery, freeform silk-and-velvet crazy quilts from the Victorian era, Depression-era double wedding ring ...
Although vintage quilts remain among the most recognized manifestations of Amish culture, they represent the historical, localized trends of only a finite period from a living and changing culture.
Antique Quilts. Antique quilt and textile merchant Betsey Telford-Goodwin moved Rocky Mountain Quilts from Colorado to York Village, Maine in the 1990s, but that did nothing to change her globally ...
The Goodman-LeGrand Museum, located at 624 N. Broadway Ave., is hosting its third annual antique quilt display beginning Saturday and lasting through April 15.