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2. Rhombille tiling - Wikipedia

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   In geometry, the rhombille tiling, [1] also known as tumbling blocks, [2] reversible cubes, or the dice lattice, is a tessellation of identical 60° rhombi on the Euclidean plane. Each rhombus has two 60° and two 120° angles; rhombi with this shape are sometimes also called diamonds. Sets of three rhombi meet at their 120° angles, and sets ...

3. List of North American pieced quilt patterns - Wikipedia

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   Tumbling Blocks pattern, assembled in the 1870s (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) Patchwork quilts are made with patterns, many of which are common designs in North America. Anvil [1] Basket [1] Bear Paw [1] Brick Work [2] Churn Dash [1] Corn and Beans [1] Dogwood and Sunflower [1] Double Wedding Ring [1] Dove in the Window [1] Dresden ...

4. Quilt - Wikipedia

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   Stitching patterns can be a decorative element. A single piece of fabric can be used for the top of a quilt (a "whole-cloth quilt"), but in many cases the top is created from smaller fabric pieces joined, or patchwork. The pattern and color of these pieces creates the design.

5. Adeline Harris Sears - Wikipedia

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   Harris Sears's most famous work is a signature quilt.Begun in 1856 when she was seventeen and finished around 1867, the quilt includes the autographs on top of the blocks of many known celebrities and politicians of the day including the writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe ...

6. Quilts of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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   The book claims that there was a quilt code that conveyed messages in counted knots and quilt block shapes, colors and names. [5] In a 2007 Time magazine article, Tobin stated: "It's frustrating to be attacked and not allowed to celebrate this amazing oral story of one family's experience. Whether or not it's completely valid, I have no idea ...

7. Log Cabin (quilt block) - Wikipedia

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   Log cabin quilt square made by Janet Reed in Monroe County, Indiana in 1880. The Log Cabin quilt block is a North American pieced quilt pattern where narrow strips of fabric surround a central square. Usually, the block is bisected diagonally, with one half using lighter colors than the other half. [1]