[Bryn-gwlad] more on quilting and patchwork

[nweders@mail.utexas.edu]

Okay, after a second cup of coffee, I found this.

from and article by Colleen R. Callahan, Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol 
19 (1984-1985) pp. 97-141.
Article is entitled "A Quilt and Its Pieces."

Page 101 fnote 5.
         "Six existing European whole-cloth quilts and quilted panels from 
the 14th through 17th centuries are illustrated and discussed in Averil 
Colby, Quilting (New York, 1971) pls 6, 100, 101, 105, 108, 109; chaps 1, 
6, 7."

and fnote 6.  "There is one early (12th or 13th century) mention of a 
pieced quilt in a French poem: "The bed was prepared of which the quilt in 
a French poem: 'The bed was prepared of which the quilt was of a 
check-board pattern of two sorts of silk cloth, well-made and rich' (quoted 
in translation by Colby, Patchwork, p. 22. from The Lays of Desire, 
Graelent, and Melion, ed. E. Margaret grimes).  As this appears to be the 
sole explicitly descriptive reference to a pieced quilt until the 18th 
century, no conclusions can be drawnfrom it about the early history of 
pieced quilts."

Hope this helps.  If I find something else, if anyone is interested remind 
me and I'll send you the info I find.

Clare (the other, other Clare)