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		<title>Question from Reader about &#8220;Tapa&#8221; Cloth</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/06/12/question-from-reader-about-tapa-cloth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Swedish reader wrote this morning and sent a photo of a piece of tapa cloth brought to Sweden by a diplomat in the 1960s. She would like to know the &#8220;value.&#8221; Not being into appraisals, I have no idea! Anyone hazard a guess? Piece of tapa cloth brought to Sweden As always, value depends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kona Bay Fabrics</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/05/26/kona-bay-fabrics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 08:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kona Bay Fabrics company offer some of the most beautiful fabrics available for quilting today. A while ago, I signed up for their e-mail notices and yesterday&#8217;s mailbox yielded links to new pages of their fabrics. For those who love &#8220;brights&#8221;, I think you will enjoy seeing this page: &#8220;Rainbow Garden.&#8221; As far as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feedsack: An Online &#8220;Found&#8221; Article by Linzee Kull McCray</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/05/19/feedsack-an-online-found-article-by-linzee-kull-mccray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 16:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading through an article on the etsy.com site written by Linzee Kull McCray. The topic is Feedsack, that ubiquitous cloth that was recycled into items of apparel and use during the 1930s/Great Depression Era. Here is the link. I think you&#8217;ll enjoy the photos, too! http://www.etsy.com/storque/read/feed-sacks-a-sustainable-fabric-history-12734/]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Example of Quadriga Cloth</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/03/28/latest-example-of-quadriga-cloth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader named Maxine has just sent us a photo of a piece of Quaker chintz cloth that is actually &#8220;Quadriga&#8221; cloth. This fabric sample is from a Dorna Gordon dress. E&#038;W, makers of Quadriga cloth, purchased the factory from Carson Pirie Scott in 1943. For much more information, please key in the words &#8220;Quadriga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is This Piece of Old Toile &#8220;the Real McCoy&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/10/03/is-this-piece-of-old-toile-the-real-mccoy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Christopher Moziakk went to a garage sale, he was merely looking for a frame. In disassembling the frame, a card fell out that identified the fabric in the frame as an English toile print from the Seymour collection, circa 1760. He sent a photo, explaining that the frame had been sitting out in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Requested in Identifying Fabric</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/07/20/help-requested-in-identifying-fabric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just received a note from a reader. Not having a ready answer, we turn to &#8220;other&#8221; experts! The fabric in question appears to be an &#8220;original&#8221; fabric, not a reproduction fabric. Our reader is looking for more information about the fabric described below. Hi Pat, My name is Patti Schneider and I live in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasure Trove of Family Textiles Continues to Delight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the last two years, we have been documenting, cleaning, photographing, writing about, and publishing items from the Lewis family collection that represents at least four generations of needleworker/quilters who also worked in other media such as rug hooking, filet crochet, and the latest techniques of their day. Represented are the three most recent quilt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Textiles: Pattern, Ornament, and Culture</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/12/03/textiles-pattern-ornament-and-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Textile design by Amin Kalaf, viewed at Plymouth State University&#8217;s Silver Center for the Arts Jim and I were in Plymouth, NH today and stumbled upon two exhibits of interest at Plymouth State University: a faculty exhibit of art, including a quilt; and an exhibition that traces American textile history though time, and with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mills &#8211; Additional Thoughts and Input on the Subject</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-mills-additional-thoughts-and-input-on-the-subject/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine yourself as a girl in the early 1800s. You would have household chores to do, and you might also work for the lady down the road, helping with the children, doing laundry or other household chores. Occupations for women were much more limited than today. In certain months of the year, you would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question from Reader re: Thread</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/18/question-from-reader-re-thread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question &#8211; &#8220;Can you tell me where to buy turkey red embroidery thread?&#8221; At first, I was floored by this question because I wondered where the reader found the term and why she was asking me. Mystified, and short on time, when I read the one-line message, I wrote back, &#8220;Why do you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Mother Collected Batiks</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/08/17/president-obamas-mother-collected-batiks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama and his sister, Maya, have inherited their mother&#8217;s collection of Batik fabrics that she bought while living in Indonesia. Ann Dunham was an anthropologist. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995, at the age of 52. Meanwhile, clothes were made for her using the beautiful Batik fabrics she collected. She had lived in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Explanation, Photos, and A Poem</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/07/17/an-explanation-photos-and-a-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the benefit on non-historians, I thought that I would take a moment to explain some terminology. When I say that my specialty and area of interest is the 19th century, I mean the 1800s. People always think that 19th century means 1900s, but the 1900s are actually the 20th century. Likewise, the 18th century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toile</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/11/07/toile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recently discovered blog features some of my words from an article I wrote about toile and its origins. Included are some wonderful examples of toile fabric being used in all manner of home decoration in the blogger&#8217;s home. Although, at first, this blog ended up in my spam mail box, I am so glad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Idea for Cheater Cloth</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/05/23/new-idea-for-cheater-cloth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 17:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo of Mola cheater cloth was taken by Linda Lane Thornton in Colon (with an accent on the second &#8220;o&#8221;), Panama. She reports having enjoyed my article in The Quilter, about the topic of cheater cloth, in the March edition. We always love to receive updates from readers, and thought this one to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1870s Cheater Cloth</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2008/03/14/1870s-cheater-cloth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gleefully, I purchased a very small piece of 1870s cheater cloth, recently. It was stuffed into a too small plastic baggie, and it was full of wrinkles. Being that old, the cloth also felt very dessicated. I wanted to press out the wrinkles, but thought it might be helpful to add some plain water to [...]]]></description>
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