| Quilt Pattern | | | | During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, printing |
| Quilt pattern collecting and quilt pattern history almost | | | | processes and fabric manufacturing advanced to the |
| invariably uncovers an affinity between quilts and the | | | | extent that fabrics became more affordable for the |
| lives of women that made quilts.Whether inspiration | | | | average American. Fabrics imported mainly from |
| was a result of their environment, their family life, their | | | | England and France were still expensive, however quilt |
| religious beliefs, political or national commemorative | | | | pattern design and quilt making became popular |
| events of their time, women seemed to have told the | | | | pastime for a growing number of American women |
| story through their creative quilt pattern and resulting | | | | who had time for quilting.This transitional period for quilt |
| quilts. | | | | pattern design saw quilt styles like the embroidered or |
| | | | stenciled quilt pattern overtaken by the influx of new |
| The more affluent colonial woman would have had | | | | appliqu quilt pattern designs. The medallion quilt pattern, |
| more time for creative needlework and their quilt | | | | strip quilt pattern, whole cloth quilt pattern, appliqu and |
| pattern and quilting methods depicted styles from their | | | | patchwork quilt pattern evolved with the new fabrics. |
| respective mother lands. Quilt pattern for broderie | | | | By this time the tradition among women of naming quilt |
| perse style of quilting was popular with these women | | | | pattern and sharing quilt pattern was long established; |
| because availability of richly printed fabrics was low. | | | | quilting circles and the social implications they had on |
| Quilt makers would turn a small seam and appliqu say, | | | | communities saw to that. Indeed the origin of names |
| floral motifs (cut from small pieces of printed fabric) to | | | | given to some of these vintage quilt pattern |
| a bed size cloth backing in order to maximise the | | | | (particularly friendship or album quilt pattern) is still a |
| usage of these fabric scraps. | | | | source of intrigue today. |