QUILTS & FABRIC: PAST & PRESENT


Sunday, March 20, 2016

Purple Period Patchwork

How come nobody makes purple quilts anymore?

All these vintage quilts are bout 1870-1900


It's not a lack of purple period prints.
Above a few leaning to purple from my Old Cambridge Pike collection for Moda.

This one's older, made by Nancy Graft Jones
who died in 1863

From Collector with a Needle

Yellow is purple's complement
so the perfect accent.

From the Packwood House collection

Or a yellowish brown if true yellow is too much.

See more about vintage purple fabrics here:
http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2015/03/stars-in-time-warp-11-purple.html

10 comments:

  1. Thank you for the tour and review through purples. I use the plural since the fabrics I have collected from you and others are so varied in their place on the color wheel. I am still not decided on exactly what I will do - so many others in the line ahead of purple. But you have surely expanded the possibilities and whetted my appetite for more. Thanks for the posting and all the links.

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  2. Quite the antithesis, my dear, I am currently making an alternating purple and brown on brown toile Irish Chain (I prefer single to double) called Tea with the Julias, my great-grandmother Julia O'Neill McCole and my stepgrandmother Julia Ryan Murphy, who liked to drink tea. I just constructed a block with your Purple Conestoga Calico, of which I WISH I had a lot more yardage.
    Susan

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  3. Thanks for the purple tour. I enjoy purple, it can be one of those unsettling almost shocking colors, especially when paired with lime or orange.
    I think my favorite purple is smoky plum which is delightful when paired with turquoise and ochre.
    I can ,and often do, go on and on about color.

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  4. Much like one of the quilts you posted at the other link, this is one I acquired over 15yrs ago that i absolutely love https://www.flickr.com/photos/mldevin/17370847951/in/album-72157652349352652/ I don't know which part is my most favorite however... the purple or madders.

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  5. I love these quilts. I love purple quilts...thx for show.
    (I love all quilts!!) lol

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  6. I love the purples but my local shop doesn't seem to like them :-(

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  7. I love purples and buy them whenever I see them!

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  8. I like most purples, but it's not a color I use in decorating or wardrobe. I have no clue why. Most purples I see in recent quilts are the bright light more pure tones, not the deep rich ones shown in these quilts. And personally, I find that radiant orchid that was color of the year recently ghastly.

    come to think of it, most purple quilts I see made today are those made for graduations and it's one of the school colors.

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  9. Oddly enough, I'm about to start on a purple medallion quilt. Collecting the purples has been half the fun of it!

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