With very rare exceptions, I leave full scale quilts to others, but I'm forever looking for great old doll quilts or crib quilts, especially ones with compositions that make them feel as much like paintings as textiles. And this one, with its grid of red triangles, striped in shifting positions, feels to me as if loaded with language, too--each square a symbol, and the quilt as a whole delivering some sort of message to be decoded! Relatedly, feels a lot like semaphore signal flags waving in different directions. (Found in Maine, perhaps that was the intent!) Great fabric too, those stripes actually woven bands across the red, and cotton with tiny red flowers around the borden and on reverse.
17" x 13 1/4". Well worn, general toning and some scattered stains on both front and back, as documented, but shows very nicely, with no losses, holes, tears, etc. All hand-sewn, not at all fragile.
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