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The 1903 Jackson Corners Signature Quilt Book

16 Wednesday Mar 2022

Posted by SKH in 20th Century, Books, Fiber Arts, Genealogy

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Oh hey I forgot to post here as well…

I finished the book! You can buy it! It’s real!

Go to Oblong Books in Millerton or Rhinebeck to get a copy, or order it from their online store! I also have a separate blog for the book which you can check out here: jc.44parkave.com

I posted back in 2011 that I had gotten the quilt and was thinking that I should write a book about it. Took a decade, but it’s done. I’m speaking about it in various places and if I remember I’ll post about them. The first talk is tonight. I’m super nervous. If it doesn’t stink and they record it, I’ll try to remember to post a link here.

Signature Quilt – Flowers Only

04 Monday Feb 2013

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Of the 42 panels of the unfinished 1903 Northern Dutchess signature quilt in my possession, 14 panels do not have embroidered names, only embroidered flowers. Some have the ghosts of names once written in ink now lost forever.
Below is a gallery of those panels, showing flowers that may have been worked by the same woman as they are all worked in outline stitch for the most part and show a consistent skill-level. The designs, however vary greatly from an elegant calla lily to an amorphous cluster of what could be called flowers. I like to think that they let a young girl draw some of them.
I’m not sure if the women who made this quilt would have had a book or magazine or something similar, or if they just used existing images from wallpaper or other sources as a reference for the designs.
This 1892 quilt from Ohio has similar designs to the 1903 unfinished quilt, but is entirely done in redwork. Part of me is glad to not find anything like the 1903 quilt online because it makes it special, but is also frustrating to not be able to better define it.

White, yellow and grey lily in outline and seed stitch. No names.
Bird with banner on stump in red, brown, black and two yellow and green colors, worked in outline and split stem stitch. Faded inked names.
Grape leaf? in yellow outline stitch. No names.

Pansy or violet with butterfly in white and yellow outline stitch. No names.
Three flowers in white and yellow outline stitch. No names.
Small white flowers with yellow stems and white ribbons in outline stitch. No names.

Three tulips with ribbon in yellow and white outline stitch. No names.
Crudely designed flowers in white and yellow outline stitch. No names.
Calla lily in red and green shiny thread worked in outline stitch. Many faded inked names.

Crude tulip design, same as panel 4-3 in red, pink and white outline stitch. No names.
Five thistles in white and yellow outline stitch. No names.
Three flowers, the same design as panel 2-6, in red, pink and white outline stitch with some wear. Many faded inked names.

Flower and buds in white, yellow and black outline and seed stitch. No names
Three violet design in yellow and black outline stitch. No names.

Signature Quilt – Introduction

20 Thursday Oct 2011

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A 70″x80″ piece of family and local history was recently passed down to me from a great-aunt who had it passed down to her from her mother. It doesn’t have a name, thought had been calling it “the textile”. On doing some initial research, it appears to be a sort of “signature” quilt. Other names for such a piece are “album” or “autograph” quilt. Names I recognized from my family tree appear on it as well as those of a great many other local folks. I do not know how or why it was created, or even if it was made all at once or over time.

Signature (or Autograph) Quilt: a quilt made from blocks which have been signed on individual blocks. May be made as a friendship quilt by friends and family of the owner, or as a fund raiser.  Signature quilts were a popular fund raiser by the Red Cross and some church groups in the early part of the 20th century.

– Quilting.com

It’s constructed of muslin and embroidery thread and is unfinished–both in the sense that it has not been made into a quilt and that the edges are raw. The work is simple and in some squares rahter crude, but it is still something I treasure. Before stowing it carefully in an acid-free archive box, I photographed each of the 42 panels and transcribed the names that appear on each. Almost all of the panels are different, though most of the handwriting is in the same two or three hands, so I’m not sure it qualifies as a “signature” quilt by strict definition of the word.

The area in which the textile was made was surely around where my family lived in the Town of Milan, NY. Some names on it appear to be from the towns of Red Hook, Rhinebeck, Pine Plains, and Milan, in Dutchess County, NY and Gallatin and Livingston in Columbia County, NY. Below is panel #33 which is the only panel to have something other than a name written on it: the year 1903. On looking through the census for 1900 and 1910 I have found many of the same names right where they should be. I am currently researching all of the names on the quilt and plan to publish a book or booklet about the piece in the future.

At left, click to enlarge, is Panel 6 – 3 (#33 of 42)

Text: 1903, Herald Coons, Willis Bathrick, Harm Bathrick, Ward Bathrick, Mrs. Ward Bathrick, Willie Baker, Lulu Bathrick. Red, pink, yellow, grey and white embroidery: child, Greek helmet, heart-shape, carnations.

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