The Merchant's Wife Reproduction Prints

Quilt top that inspired The Merchant's Wife

Collection of Terry Clothier Thompson

Have you seen this reproduction collection from my former design partner

Terry Clothier Thompson?

She has taken a top from about 1840, which she bought in Maine years ago,

and reproduced several prints for a reproduction line called

The Merchant's Wife

It's full of rainbow or ombre stripes

in Prussian blue.

Antique album block with the same kinds

of Prussian Blue stripes

Reproduction.

The large stripes were quite fashionable in the 

1840s and '50s.

Antique

Quilt about 1840-1860

Reproductions

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Quilt, about 1840-1860

These fondu prints or rainbow prints are hard to reproduce; 

there is so much going on in the print.

Here's a sketch for a reproduction quilt inspired by the original top.

And another sketch called The Merchant's Star that I found online.

A link to another new quilt in Quilters' World:

http://www.quiltersworld.com/patterns/pdfs/M08179_ThriftShoppe.pdf

I think I will mix these with my latest Civil War Jubilee line---the stripes will make terrific sashing.

See some more reasons why you need this line of fabric at Lisa's post at Stray Threads

http://quilltr.blogspot.com/2010/08/1840-1860-quilt-styles.html