Crochet Quilt's

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 21

Crochet Quilt's

It can almost:"be laid Sown as a certainty that, any-work of any date which has imposed patience aid- delicate labour will revive- as a fashion .with the connoisseurs (states an -overseas writer). An. interesting "case in point is that of the Victorian crochet bed-quilt; ' . ..' :' ' .*

There, can.be few middle-aged, people alive today who do ■ not remember vividly the look aud feel" of' one of these quilts fashioned by the 'hands of their mother' or ■ grandmother. They were heavy and often of ornate pattern. Sometimes a quilt would be composed of small squares,7 each one being heavily ribbed or honeycombed. Again,l there would be raised flowers, with petals, attached only at the tips 'and the centre. A cable pattern was another favourite. By the middle of the Good Queen's reign there, must have been few self-respecting households without at least' one white crochet bedspread, and most households had more than one. Where, are these snows of yesteryear? For twenty years we have regarded such handiwork as tasteless an£ useless; and so it is to be feared that the . vast majority of crochet quilts have been cut up for base" uses-or have-joined the stock of the rag-and-bone man.;

Now, however, once more the collectors arc asking for them. They make beautiful curtains with their richness and, their indeterminate white shadows. Also in. the most modern of bedrooms a white hand-made quilt can give just the right finishing touch and can look properly sophisticated. Good specimens are fetching fair numbers of shillings in such places as the -Caledonian market, which is a sure guide to tho latest "line" among revivals. Those people who admire the quilts hi all but their whiteness are ■ sending them to the dyer.