This “Bowmansville Star” exemplifies the type of quiltmaking possible only after the Industrial Revolution and its resulting abundance of fabrics. Like a pointillist painter, this quiltmaker assembled postage stamp sized pieces of printed cotton fabrics—carefully placed to create contrast and pattern—to create her vivid design, a speciality of her small eastern Pennsylvania village.
Pattern:
Postage Stamp Star
Maker:
Maker unknown
Circa
1880
1900
Probably made in
Bowmansville, Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
,
United States
83.5
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94.5
IQM, Jonathan Holstein/Gail van der Hoof Collection