by Quilt Alliance | Dec 17, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Ohio natives Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight of a gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane. The first flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. The Wright’s day job back in Dayton, Ohio was building, selling and repairing bicycles. This Lone Star quilt was pieced by [unknown first name] Smith and quilted by Margaret Shuping from Dayton, Ohio in the 1940’s. The current owner of the quilt documented the quilt during the North Carolina Quilt Project in Hendersonville, N.C. in 1985. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Dec 16, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1773, a group of colonists in Massachusetts posing as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea, worth around $18,000, into Boston Harbor. The demonstration, now known as the Boston Tea Party, protested the British Parliament’s Tea Act, which allowed the East India Company to pay very low taxes and monopolize tea sales in the colonies. This “Ohio Star with Sashing” was hand pieced and hand quilted by an unknown quilter in 1796 in Cape May, New Jersey. “The former owner of the quilt was Clara Bohm, a Cape May City school principal. She received it from a descendant of the original family, along with a note attributing it with a date of 1797.” The quilt was documented in 1990 by its owner during the Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey, Inc. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-boston-tea-party Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Dec 13, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1925, Dick Van Dyke, the beloved American actor who starred in the 1960’s sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show” was born in West Plains, Missouri. Van Dyke spent his childhood in Vermillion County, Illinois and later served in the military during World War II before launching his acting career with games shows and other acting jobs before landing the starring role in “Bye Bye Birdie” on Broadway, earning him a Tony Award. Van Dyke is still acting today after more than 50 years in show business. This “Around the World” quilt was also born in Vermillion County around this time. It was machine pieced and embroidered by Mildred Harper in Hoopeston, Illinois in 1930. The owner of the quilt, Penny Dick, of Bay City, Michigan documented the quilt during the Michigan Quilt Project in 1986. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001813/bio?ref_=nm_ql_1 Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Dec 12, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1787, Pennsylvania became the second state of the Union to ratify the U.S. Constitution. At the time one-third of Pennsylvania’s population was German-speaking, so the Constitution was printed in that language to engage these citizens in the debate. This striking tan, cream and red quilt is titled “Nonsuch,” and was made by Bessie Moyer, a German Protestant schoolteacher, between 1876-1900. The owner, Moyer’s great niece, documented the quilt during the Western Pennsylvania Quilt Documentation Project in 2010. Don’t miss using the zoom tool on this quilt View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pennsylvania-ratifies-the-constitution Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
by Quilt Alliance | Dec 10, 2013 | On this Day in History Quilts series
On this day in 1917, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Three years had gone by after the outbreak of World War I with no winner awarded. The Nobel Committee felt there were no worthy candidates nominated. Of special note to the committee that year was the Red Cross’s establishment of the International Prisoner-of-War Agency, which sent more than 800,000 communiqués to soldiers’ families by June 1917. The Ladies Reading Circle of Morristown, Tennessee made this Red Cross Quilt for fundraising in 1919. It was machine and hand pieced and then hand quilted by the group. It was donated to the Rose Center for the Arts in Morristown in 1976 and the museum’s director documented the quilt during the Quilts of Tennessee project. View this quilt on The Quilt Index to find out! Read more about its history, design and construction. Be sure to use the zoom tool for a detailed view or click the “See full record” link to see a larger image and all the data entered about that quilt. Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/red-cross-is-awarded-nobel-peace-prize Posted by Amy E. Milne Executive Director, Quilt Alliance…
