Old quilt - family treasure
IdaClaire
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Rose treasures in old cemeteries.....(lots of pics)
Comments (16)Celeste, I love your photos, and agree with Jeri about how green they are, and with Florence that it's so nice that they haven't had the "perpetual care" mowing and Roundup treatment that we usually see here in California. I also think that the first rose may be De la Grifferaie. The dark red Gallica-like rose may be "Little Red Runaround," which we often find out here in cemeteries, too. It may have also been a rootstock. I can't place the fragrant one - we have a rose that seems similar that we call "McCarty Plot" that is probably a Hybrid Perpetual. It tends to blackspot and rust, and I see some of that on your photo. I will check out its scent this year, and also other dark pink HPs in the Sacramento cemetery - we have probably 8 - 10 that have different study names and may or may not be different plants. Wish we could find Scotch roses, too. I think the issue is that we find roses from about 1850 on, and they weren't in fashion by that time. Your cemeteries are older, and have some really nifty carvings, as your other recent posting shows. Our headstone carvings are pure Victoriana, clasped hands, doves, fingers pointing heavenwards, and many different types of carved flowers. Thanks so much for what you do in looking for the old roses, and sharing them with us! Anita...See MoreFascinating Old Cemetery Treasures.......photos
Comments (10)Celeste, thank you for sharing. The photo with the glowing ball is fascinating. Even if some people do not believe in an afterlife, we still have a basic law of physics that scientists recognize (and that we were taught in high school), that "matter can be neither created nor destroyed". If we consider that water can change into different forms, such as ice and water vapor (which we cannot always see, but is there), I don't think it's too far fetched to believe that our life force changes into another form. Life is a form of energy. I'd like to think that the departed soul wanted to let you know it heard your prayer. Too bad there weren't any roses to take cuttings from. Sandy...See MoreSave this old quilt
Comments (15)When I got that baby quilt finished, and was clearly underway to be a 'real' quilter, my neighbor pulled out a double signed quilt that dates back to 1850-75, New England, kept in her family. It isn't dated, but she knows her family tree. I don't recall the pattern, but it was fairly large pieces of a one kind of pink floral chintz-type print, a tan that I'm sure used to be fugitive green, and muslin. It was a HUGE king size quilt, with the bottom corners out to accomodate a four poster. I always read about the plain quilting done in that time frame--single or double lines, but this quilt was a quilted as a sampler of quilting patterns in blocks of about 1 x 2 feet. I remember one 'block' of of 1 inch clamshell quilting. It also had some trapunto work. It was also very worn. I thought at the time that a quilt historian/museum would love to see it. Someday, I'll ask her to let me take some pictures now that I have a digital camera....See More'new' old quilt pics
Comments (8)Jackie, thanks for the kind offer, but my research has been mainly in Belmont Co, Ohio, various places in Va, and Chester Co, Pa.....my father's folks were all in Chester - Quakers who came over with Wm Penn in 1683, and my maternal side came into Va in the early 1600s. Some from both sides moved to Ohio, and none of my direct lines went much further west than the Ohio river...thank goodness....this meant I have been able to visit all the areas they lived, the 'reward' from spending all those hours with dusty books in even more dusty libraries, doing research! If I can help you with any of those areas, just ask....See Morenewdawn1895
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