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The quilt in question is "Pieced Pineapple" Applique Encyclopedia #46.47, originally pictured in Ruth Finley's 1929 book in plate 80. Finley didn't know much about this old top, which she accurately dated to about 1840. She did write a bit about the pineapple in American design calling it
"one of the most favored of all post-Colonial designs....a symbol of domestic hospitality," description that has become the standard text about pineapple quilts.
A page of appliqued fruit
The Encyclopedia of Applique is available either in print or as a PDF from C&T Publishing.
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I can open it and scroll to the correct page. I can take a screen shot if I want to keep a copy of the information.
A Ladies's Art Company pattern
Print this out for a pattern 8" square. It's the same mid-19th-century quilt
that's at the top of the page.
A few more variations of #46.47
From Marie Miller's shop
A vintage top quilted by Kathy Colvin
From the Grand Rapids Public Museum collection
and the Quilt Index
From an old Quilt Engagement Calendar
From the Massachusetts project and the Quilt Index,
one from the Borland family in the collection of the Concord Museum.
Attributed to New York in the Smithsonian's collection:
From a sampler made in New Jersey from Bonnie Hunter's blog
See some more appliqued pineapples here:
This is such an intriguing pattern. I have to wonder though, how many quilters of that time period, actually got to see a real pineapple.
ReplyDeleteThe pineapple is said to have been a symbol of hospitality in Colonial America. https://www.southernliving.com/culture/pineapple-hospitality
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