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Quilt Festival Houston – Quilts

A Brief History of Quilting in America

Crazy Quilts” of the sort shown here were popular in the US in the late 1800s, especially among wealthier women who had access to the fine fabrics we associate with these quilts. They also had the leisure time to do all the elaborate embroidery designs. The example here are somewhere near the middle on the spectrum of “elaborate” crazy quilts of the era. The first one shown is much fancier than the second one, shown in the flyover, giving you a sense of the range of some of these designs. Crazy