Late 18th- and early 19th-century developments in the production of greige goods—raw fabrics not yet bleached or dyed—spurred the invention of new printing and dyeing methods. These processes in turn led to increasingly affordable consumer fabrics, many of which found their way into quilts. This whole cloth quilt features a roller printed fabric; roller printing was the standard for most of the 19th century and was one of the reasons printed textiles became affordable, and therefore widespread.