Pyrotechnics

Quilt from about 1890-1910

in the pattern published as Pyrotechnics

by the Ladies Art Company about 1890.

It's BlockBase #3461,

also published as Wheel or Wheel of Fortune

The 12 refers to the number of spokes in the

published pattern. The center is a hollow wheel or flower.

Surrounded by a single ring of triangular points.

In the Ladies Art drawing and in the BlockBase pattern

 the sunflower fits into a circle with curved shapes.

Straight lines here in this one from about 1880-1900

Indiana Project & the Quilt Index

The ring of triangular shapes sometimes seems to

have a little curve to those triangle sides.

The Newcomb Loom company sold a pattern for the design with curved triangles.

Perhaps the source for...

 Carrie Hall's early 1930s block at the 

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.

A top by Mrs. W.M.O. Moss found

in the Louisiana Project

So much like Carrie Hall's block,

which was not published in color until the 1980s.

Which came first the Ladies Art Company pattern or the quilts?

I  have photos of several that look to be older than the

published pattern.

From Jeffrey Evans antiques. Novel shading.

All in red and greens

From Cow Hollow Antiques

And from the Sign of the Whale Antiques

With added applique

Siotha Hibbs Longmire, from the Tennessee Project

This one may be earlier too. It has no hollow circle in the center and

there are 8 spokes.

Here's a great version from Susan Dague's collection.

About 1950

Rather unconventional fabric choices but it works.