Hand-sewn and Embroidered c. 1900 Owl Cigar Silk Quilt facto knife also well worn and missing

also well worn and missing a bottom

I believe it dates to the 1960s or 70s

I'd hang it on the wall

with finely done pin prick type decoration on the toe and stocking(

Hand-sewn and Embroidered c. 1900 Owl Cigar Silk Quilt facto knife also well worn and missingI think it was quite wise as well as resourceful of women not to let cigar silks ribbons go to waste, especially brilliant gold ones like these! (Meanwhile, their fathers or husbands were cutting and carving up the cigar boxes to make tramp art frames and the like.) While I've seen a handful of these quilts, this is the first I've seen made almost entirely using one brand of silks; typically it seems it was the practice to trade in order to have a