Tweety2911

Thanks so much for sharing this historical quilt! Awesome handiwork and beautiful quilt!

paoberle

Wow! I have a similar quilt. Mine is lap size. The maker used a variety of stitches and the backing is silk. It is not labeled with a date. The only clue I have to its ago is that it was given to me around 1985 by a lady who at that time was about 65 years old and she remembers being covered with it when she was a small child.

maviskw

I would agree with Oma about hand tied. Certainly not machine quilting. That quilt would have been tied when it was finished in 1915.

carolynjo

The suggestion to use tulle on the front to reinforce the fragile pieces is great! I do that when I fix old quilts for people.

bradleycpa

I, too, have a silk crazy quilt made by my great-grandmother in 1935. And it is also deteriorating. So I'm look for suggestions to either repair and/or preserve it. I thought about replacing the really bad pieces with pieces from DH's ties and blind stitching them in up close to the embroidery stitch. My GGM used lots of different stitches along the pieces and I don't want to lose that handwork. Amd ideas/suggestions? TIA

Taughtby Grandma

How exciting to find it and what a beauty it still is!

Grandma Peg

The quilt is amazing

Daylesewblessed

What a great find! See it raising so many questions. You just want to know more about the circumstances and the maker.

love to sew

Did the owner get it appraised? what did you do if anything to restore it?

Sallybear6

unbelievable! What an awesome find!!