A CLOUD OF QUILT PATTERNS: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PATTERN IN BLOG FORM UPDATES & ADDITIONS BY BARBARA BRACKMAN

Monday, December 18, 2017

Rose of Sharon Bouquet

From the Quilt Index
The block is a different symmetry than the usual
Rose of Sharon patterns. Rather than 4-way
mirror-image symmetry the design is more of a bouquet.

Floral center with 4-way, mirror image symmetry,
a much more common pattern structure.

Marie Webster pictured the asymmetrical design in her 1916 book and
called it Rose of Sharon.

She called this one Virginia Rose

Here are a few variations of this asymmetrical rose design
from my Encyclopedia of Applique,
numbered 31

#31.52,
Rose of Sharon from Hall & Kretsingers' 1935 book.
Carrie Hall's block is in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art.

International Quilt Study Center & Museum
#2003_003_0171

Because the block is rather loose in structure 
19th-century examples vary quite a bit.
Most of these photos are from online auctions or unattributed Pinterest posts
and most are mid-19th-century.


The major characteristic is a central rose or floral
with rotating motifs that are more like a bouquet
than the usual formal symmetries.

Here the central flower is a Victoria's Crown.
...a Harrison Rose.


Rose and pomegranate. The borders.....!!!

The block is similar to this beauty from the Texas project
& the Quilt Index.

From the collection of New York museum
Historic Huguenot Street.
She managed to make the asymmetry fill the square block well.

From a sampler in my collection.


Minimalism 

Maximalism in a four-block from the Carlson collection
at IQSCM #2012_008_0008

An eagle in the center.
IQSCM #1997_007_0144

From a sampler/album dated 1860.
Collection of the Chemung Co (NY) Historical Society.
More a tree than a bouquet.


Sold at Augusta Auctions.


From the collection of MIA the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.
See more about a subcategory Harrison Rose at this post:
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2017/03/victorias-crown.html

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