This is an antique quilt found at a thrift shop. When I saw it I could not believe my eyes but as often, I tend to first dismiss it. I took it home and looked at it carefully. It is covered with carefull red, white and blue stitches all done by hand ...millions of stitches! ...and there is so much more to it. It has these bands of paterns hand stitched as well, each band is a diferent patern, and it is very very old. I can't say how old but It has to be at least 19th century. It was once double it's size most likely but probably fell apart on one side and someone cut the edge of the bad part and refinished a smaller version of it by applying the edge strip to the cut edge of the salvaged side. The result is a slightly assimetrical design with an interrupted corner on one side(photo above) and proper wedged corners on the other. Looking at the material and looking at the colour theme and pattern, it looks like it could be even older than 19th cent...
But that may be wishful thinking!
If you know anything about this type of blanket, let me know. I did a search but have not come up with any worthy reference so far.
I will post a bunch of other picts on my flickr page...
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recently an Indian friend told me this may very well be from India. I would not be surprised but I hold a doubt because of the particular choice of colours, materials somewhat and design... No definite answer yet.
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