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February 20th, 2019

2/20/2019

 
Antique fabric sample collection.


Many years ago I purchased a collection of fabric samples that someone had saved in this antique book (below). The book pages are blank, perhaps it was meant to be a journal. The fabrics have been glued to heavy cards and inserted between the pages. Unfortunately, there is no writing on the cards or pages.

The fabrics date from the early 1800's to about 1860. Many of the fabrics are Delaines (cotton and wool), the others are cottons. Most of the dyes are still bright and unfaded. The fabrics appear to have been in the book many years as some of the pages have a reverse impression of the printed fabric which has been pressed against it for probably a century or more.
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​Following are some of the fabrics in the book.
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Early print, perhaps c1800 or earlier.
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Delaines on the right.
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Unfaded purple on the left.
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Delaines
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Three of the Delaines.
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Nice unfaded purple on the bottom right.

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    Welcome to my blog, Antique Quilt Studies.

    As a collector of antique quilts for over 20 years I have come to love everything about these wonderful textiles.

    Studying antique quilts has turned into an all encompassing venture, ever widening my fields of interest into other quilt related items like antique fabrics, textile history books, and fabric sample books.

    I look forward to sharing some of the quilt history I've picked up along the way as well as some of the items from my collections.

    Thanks for visiting,
    Laurette Carroll

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