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2. Log Cabin (quilt block) - Wikipedia

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   The Log Cabin pattern expressed nostalgia for settler times when log cabins were more common. Additionally, log cabins were associated with Abraham Lincoln. [4] In the 1870s and 1880s, shades of brown were popular in quilts, while in the 1890s and 1910s, greys, blacks, and blues were common. By the 1930s, Log Cabin quilt designs went out of ...

3. Eleanor Burns - Wikipedia

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   Burns first started stitching on her Aunt Edna's feed sacks. Her first book, Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern, was self-published in 1978.The book has been credited with starting a quilt-making revolution as people learned Burns's style of stitching a quilt.

4. File:Quilt, Log Cabin pattern, Straight Furrow variation MET ...

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5. Tulle (netting) - Wikipedia

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   Tulle is often used as an accent, to create a lacy, floating look. Tulle may also be used in underskirts or petticoats to create a stiff belled shape. Gowns are often puffed out with the use of several layers of stiff tulle. Tulle netting is also used to make veils, since it obscures the features of the face while allowing the wearer to see out ...

6. Quilt - Wikipedia

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   Echo quilting, where a quilted outline of the appliqué pattern is repeated like ripples out to the edge of the quilt, is the most common quilting pattern employed on Hawaiian-style quilts. Beautiful examples are held in the collection of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum , Honolulu, Hawaii.

7. History of quilting - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. Quilts of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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   In Stitched from the Soul (1990), Gladys-Marie Fry asserted that quilts were used to communicate safe houses and other information about the Underground Railroad, which was a network through the United States and into Canada of "conductors", meeting places, and safe houses for the passage of African Americans out of slavery.

9. Baltimore album quilts - Wikipedia

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   An album quilt (c. 1850), part of the collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore album quilts originated in Baltimore, Maryland, in the 1840s. They have become one of the most popular styles of quilts and are still made today. These quilts are made up of a number of squares called blocks. Each block has been appliquéd with a ...