Glossary
Album Quilt
Appliqué
Batting
Broderie Perse
Chintz
Conversational Prints
Copperplate Prints
Double Pink
English Paper Piecing
Friendship Quilt
Medallion
Overdyed
Pieced/Patchwork
Pillar Prints

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Quilting
Quilting by the Piece
Roller Print
Sampler
Sash
Set
Stippled
Strippy
Stuffed
Summer Spread
Turkey Red
Utility Quilting

CONVERSATIONAL PRINTS
Small-scale print fabrics, usually in two colors, of recognizable objects such as cannon, comets, horseshoes and arrows, etc. They were popular in the 1880s.

 

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