By: Winifred Reddall
Very few quilts with pieced lettering have come to light, up to the present time. A search of literature turned up six other 19th century quilts whose monograms or messages display the same general style of lettering. Simply listing the origins of these quilts revealed a regional identity for the group. Documentation indicates that four of the seven quilts were made in upstate New York, one is from Newark,
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