New Acquisitions
Published: Wednesday, 20th July 2011 09:28 AM
New Acquisitions
One of the latest additions to The Quilters’ Guild Collection at the Quilt Museum and Gallery is a colourful hand pieced small squares patchwork top made during the 1930s. Each of the small patchwork pieces measures just 1 inch square, and are made from different coloured and patterned dress and furnishing fabrics, arranged in a ‘Trip of the World’ block design. The card templates are still intact in the reverse, one of which is a piece of packaging from ‘Imperial tobacco’. The patchwork was made by Annie Rapson (née Reynolds) who lived in Hunton, Maidstone. Other items recently accepted into the collection include a Turkey Red and white cotton signature coverlet from Sheriff Hutton Wesleyan church and a crazy patchwork coverlet made from pieces of pink satin corset fabric with green decorative embroidery. Look out for these new objects on the museum collections website in the near future!