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