Civil War Jubilee Dress Prints

#8257 Birds in the Air

The prints in my next Moda reproduction collection called Civil War Jubilee reflect print styles fashionable for women's dresses during the 1840-1875 period. Above a striped paisley.

All those scraps from dressmaking wound up in quilts too.
Here's a view of the prints, which won't be in shops till summer, but you can start planning.

#8250 Harmony

Harmony is a classic foulard, a small figure placed on a gridded diagonal repeat, the fashion necessity in the 1860s.

#8251 Nightwatch

The formal print layout is echoed in the patriotic print here, 

Nightwatch, which is a star pinning a grid. 

Window-pane checks were quite the thing in the 1860s.

#8255 Jubilo

Jubilo is a scattered floral, reflecting the print in this white-collared, 

belted, hoop-skirted fashion of the 1860s.

#8256 Lincoln's Legacy

 Lincoln's Legacy is another scattered floral, 

here with a portrait from the 1850s---different dress silhouette.

#8258 Freedom

The baby is wearing a sprigged print like Freedom.

#8252 Celebration

A larger version of a sprig, trailing across a dress

from the 1870s, maybe the '80s.

#8254 A Capella

Here's the most dramatic print in the collection, which I called A Capella. The woman is wearing a similar print in a photo probably from the 1880s. (More about the print names in a later post.)

#8253 January 1st

But the overarching theme during the Civil War was mourning. January 1st is a dark floral that would be appropriate in purples for half-mourning, the transitional stage in the hierarchy of clothing showing respect for the deceased. 

Moda has posted the PDF with the overview of the Civil War Jubilee prints here:

http://www.unitednotions.com/fcc_civil_war_jubilee.pdf

That means the precuts should be available in a couple of weeks---I'm guessing May 1st.