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

Monday, March 9, 2020

Broken Circle or Suspension Bridge

This complex pattern was often done in red and white

International Quilt Museum Collection

The pattern was published several times. Names
from BlockBase (#2663)

The design has many relatives but this
one has a square contrasting with the circle.
Probably first published as Broken Circle by the Hearth & Home
group of magazines in the early 20th century, collected into
the Clara Stone catalog.

Clara Butler sent a picture to
the Nebraska Farm Journal in 1909,
calling it Broken Wheel


Many were made that look to be from the 1900-1925 years


From Bill Volckening's collection

A signature top made for the Rev. Early, Brunswick County.
North Carolina project & the Quilt Index



Sashing eliminates the secondary pattern of circles.

Louise Mace Carr
WV Project & the Quilt Index




By Sally King, Left Hand, West Virginia.
WV Project & the Quilt Index

From Bill Volckening's blog
The Ladies Art Company added it to their catalog in
the twenties, bringing it to a wide audience.
Like many of these designs with spiky points and arcs,
the design probably began in the last half of the 19th century
as a Southern upland pattern.

Helen A Dollar Magraw, Neshoba County, Mississippi
From the book Mississippi Quilts.

Holstein Collection, International Quilt Museum
Pennsylvania or Maryland

Kansas City Star Pattern By Eveline Foland
about 1930.

The look changed with the emphasis on brights and prints

Tim Quilts. Tim has been hand quilting this old top.

Bill Volckening's Collection



Here's a BlockBase pattern for a 12" Block


If you sashed it like a Rocky Mountain quilt
you'd have a Rocky Mountain variation but nobody ever seems to have done it that way.

UPDATE:
Here's one with a four patch in the square---looks 1930s or '40s.






1 comment:

  1. OOOooohhh. That pattern was racial, pointed pattern for white and one for colored!

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