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Article: Quilts.
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- Interior Design
- Article date:
- May 15, 1989
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QUILTS
AH, THE FEMININE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Little things, perhaps. On a small scale, possibly. Needlework and other household arts once formed the common measure of a woman. For there indeed existed a time when most items, particularly softgoods, were made at home rather than bought. And a deft hand with the needle proved a necessity as well as a treasured skill. No matter how far back into history one might delve, there exists a woman with her needle and her silks, so to speak, weaving her arts and firmly stitching together the fabric of her home. Penelope ravelled and unravelled her handiwork to fend off a house full of suitors preying on the property of an ...