Help with old quilt?

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Can anyone tell me anything about this? It's lightweight, no filling, fabric is old with some "fancy" stitching. Reverse is solid green. Corners are tacked (is that the right word?) with yarn. It's about the size of a twin size mattress, maybe a little smaller. Any guesses as to the age or value?

 

[jandsknight]

I've always heard it referred to as tied, not tacked. A pieced top tied to a backing with no filling. It's almost a quilt.

[Shirley U Geste]

Most of the fabrics don't look too old. And the embroidery stitches around some of the squares are machine done. Seems like a more current piece.

We always called the ones with no batting a throw, great for on the couch, also nice to keep one in the car so you have something to put down at the beach or on a picnic.

[jandsknight]

I thought it looked like machine embroidery also, but didn't enlarge enough to be sure.

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Aw, poop. I thought the fabric was from the 40s or 50s, and assumed it was handmade. Any idea what it might be worth?

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[jandsknight]

Looked at the close up of the embroidery & now think that part is hand done. Of course the tying is, too. The embroidery was done on the top before it was joined to the bottom. I have no idea if the seams on the patchwork is by hand or machine. I also can't guess how old the fabric is. And I have no idea about value.

[bettyblackbent]

The patchwork fabrics are 40s and 50s, no later, and not prints that the repro companies make.

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My mother did a fair amount of quilting, and I'm not an expert by any means, but the embroidered stitching looks to be hand done to me. The way the borders and binding is attached looks hand made, but probably using a sewing machine to piece together. And the tied top is almost certainly hand done. Looks like a hand made quilt to me, especially the fabric colors and patterns and mix of different types of fabrics, in addition to it having no batting, in my amateur opinion, would not be found in a commercially made quilt. But I have no idea on price. Good luck with it.

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Thanks everyone! I guess I'll auction it, since I don't know what it's worth.

Is there a name for the diagonal stripe pattern? Any other KWs I should use besides vintage, patchwork, tied, handmade?

[RetroMonde]

Are the fabrics cotton? They look like they have a sheen, like rayon dress fabric.. I think the embroidery is the feather stitch, definitely done by hand. Mention 40s, pieced, hand embroidery or embroidered. Not sure what the pattern is. II call "tied" quilts ' UTILITY quilts but that may not be a good KW. Good luck with it!

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I think some of the squares are rayon, they remind me of vintage dresses. The rest of them and the backing feel like cotton.

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I'm late to the party, but I believe that's a 4 patch block. I couldn't tell from the pics, but I'm sure you can from seeing it up close (It's just exactly what it sounds like). The blocks can be put together a few different ways, including looking like a diagonal stripe, but I don't know that the pattern has a name. So I would go with that - 4 patch blocks that have been joined to form a diagonal stripe pattern.

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Late here too but the fabric patches look like ones my mother used to put on my bed--the quilts she'd cover me with when I was sick. That would be fabric from the 40s probably. If there's a sheen and it's rayon, I do remember rayon being big in the '50s but wasn't it big in the '40s too? When they couldn't get silk for stockings? I'd use mid century vtg as key words too.