Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 20:44:34 -0600

  Jacquard coverlets were woven on large looms on which the intricate

  designs created on the coverlets were determined by punchcards not

  unlike the obsolete IBM cards.  ...... The border design and the

weaver's name, date,

  and/or other device in the corners of the coverlet was his own

creation.

  These coverlets were woven in one long, narrow strip,

Hi,

Coverlets with the names & dates woven in were also made on "simpler" 4

or more harness looms in an overshot pattern in which the names & dates

were woven in with a hand manipulated pick-up method.  These did not

have the intricate curves, eagles, etc. but were basically block type

patterns.  There are still weavers today doing this.

GAil R.

in NE Wis.

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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:25:48 -0800

From: ptwkwhsprcn.org (N Mussellam)

Issue 36 (February 1999) of American Patchwork and Quilting Magazine

  from Better Homes and Gardens contains a very interesting and

  informative article about Anne Orr written by QHL member Merikay

  Waldvogel.

Thanks to Merikay, I have more info to give to my mother regarding a

quilt  that has been in her family for many years.

The Falling Leaves pattern designed by Ann Orr is in  a quilt made by an

anonymous Rancher's wife in the Alberta Foothills and given or sold to my

Great Grandmother. We are not sure how it came into her possession, as

she  owned a hotel in Nanton, Alberta. My mom remembers lots of quilts on

every  bed in the hotel, when she stayed there every summer.  Some of these

quilts

could have been to pay a bill , or barter, or purchased. Anyway my mom is

very pleased to learn more about the design.

Nina Mussellam in BC

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:36:35 +0300

From: "John Ordway" <ordwayglas.apc.org

Greetings -

Thanks for all the private responses on CA-named blocks - I've got great

places to jump from now!  Still hoping someone will come up with a book

on  California quilt heritage projects - maybe there isn't one? 

Dzien Dobry, my DH is pretty sure, is Polish for Good Day, or it's used

as a  "Good Morning" Greeting.  He doesn't really speak Polish, though, so he

doesn't want to be a definitive expert on the saying <g.

I'll be signing off where I live, so I might as well explain now <g --

we're in the Foreign Service, and have been here for 3 years.

Maryjo in Moscow,  Russia

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 02:40:19 EST

From: JBQUILTOKaol.com

DAR stands for Daughters of the American Revolution.  To become a member,

you

have to prove you had an ancestor who fought in the American

Revolutionary   War.  They have a museum in Washington, DC that features period rooms  throughout American history.  (Unfortunately, I didn't have time to see

them).   They also have a decent quilt collection & display several at  a time.

The  organization took some major flack in the 50's over refusing to allow a

black  singer to perform in their building.

Janet

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:09:49 +0300

From: "John Ordway" <ordwayglas.apc.org

To: <QHLcuenet.com

Subject: QHL: California Q blocks

Don't want to bore people too much here, but I've been able to do some

more

tracking for my project.

I finally got the full name of the Jean Ray Laury book - it IS the

California Heritage Quilt Project and now have Bette Feinstein of Hard to

Find Needlework Books looking out for me.  If anyone can get it for me,

she

certainly can.  If people don't know who she is, e-mail me and I'll give

out  all the info - she is an old fashioned bookseller whose focus is any/all

books on needlearts.

At some people's suggestions, I went through a part of Block Base from EQ

and found even more CA blocks, but got tired after a bit. <g  My printer

just doesn't like EQ and my Quilt Pro3 is on its way .... Does anyone

know   how good the block library in the Quilt Pro programs are?

Thanks,

Maryjo in Moscow, Russia

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 07:00:35 -0600

From: "Sehoy L. Welshofer" <sw4quiltbellsouth.net

Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 23:19:24 -0500

From: Barb Garrett <bgarrettfast.net

Announcing - Interesting magazine article by QHL Member

Issue 36 (February 1999) of American Patchwork and Quilting Magazine

from Better Homes and Gardens contains a very interesting and

informative article about Anne Orr written by QHL member Merikay

Waldvogel.

Barb in southeastern PA

<bgarrettfast.net

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Barb - I love my Ann Orr quilt! It was my mother's wedding quilt - the

French Wreath pattern. It was made for her by her mother and sister in

1932.   About 10 years ago my cousin (the sister's daughter) found a real

treasure   for me. In cleaning out her mother's house, in the sewing cabinet she

found  a gold Schraft chocolate box (remember those?) tied shut with ribbon, and

in   it were cut squares in all the colors, maybe 20 of each, and a short

length   of blue bias binding, and the two (one for each of them?)1 1/4 inch

sandpaper square they used to do all those pieces! (sounds like 1/8 inch

seams to me - no wasting fabric!) I love to hand piece, but looking at

that  quilt I'm overwhelmed with all those small pieces.

I've twice had occasion to hear Merikay talk about the Ann Orr quilts -

shes

a member of TVQA (Tennessee Valley Quilter's Association) and so am I,

and  Ann Orr lived right here in Nashville.

Visit Web Threads, the Newsletter for Net Savvy Quilters at:

http://personal.bna.bellsouth.net/bna/s/w/sw4quilt/index.htm

mailto:sw4quiltbellsouth.net

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:32:55 EST

From: QuiltFixeraol.com

Dear Johannes, thank you so very much for your kindness in taking the

time to translate this for me!  I am going to use the piece in my presentation of

vintage Redwork and I knew I would be asked what it meant.  The splash is

a  vintage piece from Germany and therefore is indeed old German.  I know

very  little about the German Language, but I found it interesting that the

history  of one of my Redwork Quilts states that the maker was German American and   spoke the "dialect."  This is from Burkes County, Pa.  The quilt was made

in  1913.  I am curious to learn if the "dialect" was a slightly different

German  from the "old country."  One of the quilt blocks is a very well known one

of  Jumbo the Elephant.  Since the name of the Elephant was spelled backward,

I  wonder if she could not read or speak English at all.  Very interesting.

Again thank you for your help.  To the list: for anyone interested, lest

everyone patience is worn out with translations, please write privately

and I   will happy to respond with the information.  Toni B.  

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:10:33 EST

From: Quilt97aol.com

Maryjo,

In Barbara Brachman's  Ency of Pieced Patterns which should be at your

local

library, she lists 2 blocks "California," CA Oak Leaf, CA Rose, CA

Snowflake,  2 CA Stars, and CA Star Pattern.  A picture of each is shown.

House of White Birches published Royal Stars of the States (50 majestic

quilts

with complete instructions) and Leman Publications has Spangled Sampler

Quilts, Commemorative all-star patterns for all 50 states in

banner-raising  sampler quilts.

I've made the Road to California block -- if you place four together in a

square, it also forms a secondary pattern. 

Hope this helps. 

EKarenbeth in now chilly south TX

  On to my question:  I have P&B's Oakland Musuem repro fabric and would

like   to do something special for my DH, who is from CA -- but am having a

blank   with "blocks" from CA.  I'm overseas at the  so my only reference

materials   are my own quilting books and the internet, which unfortuntely for once,

has   been less than helpful.  I've only been able to come up with Rocky Road

to   California, California Rose (whig rose variation, I think) and there was

a   mention in one book of California Oak (no pic, though).  Does anyone

else   have anything they could look through for me? 

Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:22:11 EST

From: Quilt97aol.com

Maryjo,

One more thought . . . you might also use blocks such as Delectable

Mountains,   Lighthouse, Beacon Light, Beacon Lights, Bear's Foot, Bear's Paw, Gold

Nuggets, Golden Gate, Golden Gates or other items that would be

associated  with California.  These were listed in Barbara Brackman's encyclopedia;   skimming the index of it will give you even more ideas.   

Have fun.

EKarenbeth in south TX

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And for all the CA QHLers, don't miss the opportunity to see the

Sesquicentenial Quilt made to celebrate 150 years of statehood.  It is

currently at the Visions Exhibit in San Diego but has just returned from

the Innaguration.

Regards,

Julia Zgliniec

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:02:59 -0800

From: "pepper cory" <pepcorybmd.clis.com

I used to be a weaver  (in another galaxy far, far away-) and actually

wove

a few overshot pieces. There can be as few as four and as many as eight

harnesses on a loom, so the patterns created can be quite complex. The

width of the panels was limited by the ability of the weaver to "throw"

the  shuttle and most overshot coverlets feature panels 20-30" wide, two or

even  three sewn together, although there's no set width or number of panels.

If   you've ever seen a competent weaver weave overshot of any width, it is

real  physical exercise. The weaver's feet work the pedals which lift the

harnesses and throws the shuttle back and forth across the "tunnels"

created from the warp threads, some lifted and some flat according to the

pattern. The waver slides back and forth across the highly polished

bench-that's where the narrow and slanted bench comes in. I have heard of

itinerent weavers weaving patterns that when "translated" from their

patterns (long pieces of paper which indicated the order of the warping

of

the threads through the different reeds --comb-like slots on the

harnesses-) spelled out their own names. Many overshot coverlets were

separated into their panels when portieres (curtains on either side of a

door-) became popular in Victorian times. I have also seen coverlets

composed of non-matching panels just as we make "scrap" quilts.

Pepper Cory (sorry for the long post)

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:04:01 -0600

From: "Gail Richter" <richter2frontiernet.net

I don't know much about German either(I switched out of Scientific

German in college as fast as I could), but my grandparents came over

from Germany just before the turn of the century.  One time when I was

asking for a translation of Merry Christmas my grandmother told me that

there was 'low German' and 'high German' and that they spoke low

German. 

Also, several years ago my brother had an exchange student living with

them from Germany.  My mother brought out an old book that had been my

grandparents and asked the student if he could tell us what the book

was.  He thought it was some kind of family medical/information book,

but he couldn't read the German either!

Gail R

in NE Wis.

  The splash is a   vintage piece from Germany and therefore is indeed old German.  I  know very    little about the German Language, but I found it interesting that the  history   of one of my Redwork Quilts states that the maker was German American  and   spoke the "dialect."  This is from Burkes County, Pa.  The quilt was  made in   1913.  I am curious to learn if the "dialect" was a slightly   different German  from the "old country." 

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 17:28:23 EST

From: AG32040aol.com

I would like to thank everybody that sent translations of my blue

embroiderd  piece.The translations had differences and that made it quite

interesting.

     Thanks again,

         AMY

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