Panel #10
From Merikay's collection
Oval wreath of tri-lobed leaves with berries framing a floral spray with two drooping rosebuds on the right.
We have only two quilts with this panel, both look quite American.
Quilt in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
#1971.180.130.
The center circle is one of the larger panels seen more often, #4.
In the catalog American Quilts & Coverlets, Curator Amelia Peck
describes it as in poor condition, stained and faded.
Once a real beauty though.
The second quilt is in Cindy Vermillion Hamilton's collection now.
Photo courtesy of Julie Silber.
The center panel here is the Trophy of Arms, popular with American quiltmakers.
The smaller floral panel is the focus of the eight edge blocks, each framed with a little
smattering of chintz applique to fill out the rectangular blocks.
The label on the back seems to read
M Gas or Gar......
The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns an uncut panel, which
looks to measure about 12" across.
Textile dealer Julia Kelly-Hodenius showed off some uncut yardage last year at AQSG in her Pique Trouver booth. It was snapped up panel by panel.
You can have a panel too---a reproduction. Di Ford Hall's latest line Windermere from Andover is in shops this month---August, 2018. They have redrawn it from an oval to a circle and offer it in two colorways pink and aqua.
Windermere, 84" x 84"
Andover offers a free online pattern for a medallion featuring the new panel.
Click here:
For several years Reproduction Fabrics offered panels, including this one as an oval, but the inventory is down, Margo says. Now unavailable.
What Can We Learn from Panel #10
There is a market for chintz reproduction prints---it's just not a very large market. You can double it by buying panel repro fabrics and then doubling your order. Give the extra as a gift.
We don't want to hear another word about anybody being on a fabric diet.
Levansboom, an Indienne-style panel repro from Petra Prins
Hey, aren't we quilters all on a high fiber diet? Love that inference.
ReplyDeleteI've tried just about ever diet out there - except of course for the fabric diet!
ReplyDeleteMay I suggest "Gascoigne" as the name on the label?
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