The dark green and light tan cotton prints play off one another to create figure-ground reversal. Are the green fabrics advancing or receding? Is the predominant pattern alternating diamonds or an eight-pointed star?
Pattern:
Shoo Fly
Maker:
Maker unknown
Circa
1880
1900
Possibly made in
Vermont
United States
75
76
International Quilt Museum, Jonathan Holstein and Gail van der Hoof Collection
