Bed cover - Victoria & Albert Museum - Search the Collections
I love this quilt and love going through the collections at the V&A. Sadly I don't seem to be able to share more than one quilt at a time. I find their descriptions a little weird. Would you call this a wholecloth?
A problem with a lot of the V & A descriptions seems to be re putting modern labels/names/definitions onto older pieces. Wasn't back stitch very common as a quilting stitch back then anyway? Even though very few people do it today (unless in an eighteenth century style).
ReplyDeleteI wish some of their detail pictures showed MORE detail than they do...
It's very beautiful...I don't want to contradict the V and A but, no I wouldn't call it a whole cloth (but I wouldn't call it a coverlet either-under the 'more information tab')
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing it Sally,you've given me a collection I can ogle at from time to time.
Cheers,
Margaret