Another variation of BlockBase #160---
repeating stars.
Mid-19th century quilt.
I don't think I've ever seen a name published before 1970 for this shading pattern of stars,
Sometimes alternated with rosettes.
Marina Jones Gregg 1852
Charleston Museum of Art
Elizabeth Docton Perry
Charleston Museum of Art
The pattern seems to be a Carolina regional favorite.
Deborah Tritt and Laurel Horton examine a pair of South Carolina hexagon stars.
Both by Marina Jones Gregg?
See an article about this pair of twins (the quilts---not the quilt historians)
in the Aiken Standard here:
Hexagon Star by Keturah McElroy from the Kentucky Historical Society
They were fond of hexagons in Kentucky too.
The vivid color in some of these striking antiques is due to the wool and silk combination fabrics that take dyes differently from cotton.
Although the one below is cotton---Turkey red and green.
From Mary Kerr's hexagon collection
By Mrs. Cruse of Hastings, Nebraska
Collection Hastings Museum
A few more cotton examples:
By Hannah Wallis Miller
The D.A.R. Mueum has one that's a variation of Diamond Field.
The red dot focuses your eye on the star shape.
See an all-over shot at the Quilt Index:
It's very much like an unfinished top that Presidential daughter Maria Hester Monroe
started
By Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur,
collection of the James Monroe Museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia
but never finished.
Diamonds are Forever
Carol Mahoney, Auckland NZ, 2008
If you shade carefully you get a real 3-D appearance,
a combination of tumbling blocks and diamond field.
But I couldn't find any antique examples that were successful at that illusion.
Below: Contemporary versions.
ThreadBenders Quilts
Libby at Plain and Simple Quilts
Mrs. Baldwin's Star
48" x 48"
2010
Joan Leahy Blanchard was inspired by another antique star at the Charleston Museum to do her 2010 AQSG Star Study quilt. Read more here:
The original:
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