Crib Quilt
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The modest handiwork of this crib quilt suggests that it was amateur work, perhaps assembled by a female relative celebrating the arrival of a new baby. Although at first glance the quilt appears to be a patchwork of small fabric fragments, in fact the central element with its patterned corners is a continuous printed motif, designed to imitate the appearance of a pieced quilt. The anonymous seamstress has inventively amended her pre-printed quilt kit by partly superimposing two of the rose-bush squares, in doing so expanding the quilt’s height.
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