Past Glory
from Ann Quilts
Sometimes a really, really damaged quilt is still incredibly beautiful. This is one of those times.
The quilt was sent to me for assessment and my thoughts about what to do with it. It has much fabric damage, both faded colors and lots of tattered, dangling, and missing fabric.
I think the tan fabric was likely dyed with an early synthetic dye. Fading of colors to this kind of tan, often called dun, was common with the experimental new dyes in the later part of the 1800s, as the fabric industry tried to find new dyes that were stronger colored ...
