Birds in Applique

I've posted about cats on quilts so to be fair here are some birds found in antique applique quilts. They are found in borders as with the blue and red bird above from a quilt in the collection of the New England Quilt Museum. See the whole quilt by clicking here on this Quilt Index file
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=21-41-82

Karla Menaugh and I made a picture file of birds for our book Juniper & Mistletoe, which was really about trees, but we found several great birds in the trees.

Birds don't take much in the way of applique as in this border from a quilt dated 1842

Here's a minimalistic bird from a top about 1900

And a worn border from a mid-19th-century quilt

Birds often appeared in blocks

Especially in samplers

Scale seems to be a problem in this sampler with a giant bird in the bottom row.

Here's a lovely crib quilt with a variety of birds and bugs from an online auction.

See more by clicking on these links.

From the Quilt Index, New Jersey, probably from the 1860s, a sampler with some strange blocks and two bird blocks

http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=4A-7F-C66

Another Quilt Index photo, this one from the Connecticut Quilt Project, with some long-beaked birds towards the bottom
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=47-7B-D9 

An Irish Chain with birds in the alternate blocks
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=4B-82-391

From the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, a fairly recent quilt by Sarah Mary Taylor, #2005.060.0001
http://cdn.firespring.com/images/197ccef6-5f11-487e-9fa4-b5ccbab67938.jpg

Dealer Stella Rubin has an unusual 19th century example

http://www.stellarubinantiques.com/items/677403/enlargement677403sra.html

And for more about our book Juniper & Mistletoe click here

https://www.pickledishstore.com/productDetail.php?PID=1143