Unusual Antique Textiles
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About Unusual Finds
Betsey’s love of antique textiles overflows the limits of our categories! This is where you will find unique pieces that are special enough to offer to you. As with all of our other pieces, these antique textiles are guaranteed for authenticity, condition and age.
 
F138 Linsey Woolsey Fragment with Star Center
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F138 Linsey Woolsey Fragment with Star Center
c.1800-1820
23 x 24
$1,800

A gorgeous very early homespun fragment from an original much larger quilt. This c.1800-1820 piece is a treasure showcasing homespun wool both front and back (see detail image) with wonderful hand quilting using both green and brown linen thread. The stars are outline and parallel line quilted, with both scroll work and outline quilting in the larger mustard blocks.

Graphically wonderful, this fragment would make a beautiful wall hanging. Ask us about adding sleeves to the back for hanging. Pillowcase edged in an invisible stitch using linen thread.
UF207 Folk Art Bull’s Eye Wool Wall Hanging
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UF207 Folk Art Bull’s Eye Wool Wall Hanging
c.1915
Wooden frame covered in black cotton: 21 ½ x 23 x 7/8
Bull’s Eye wool design: 18 ½ x 19 ½
Lancaster County, PA
$850

What fun! In pristine condition, this terrific folk art piece is ready and waiting to hang in your home or office. A one of a kind creation out of gathered strips of wool just like those used for braided rugs. The resulting Bull’s Eye design is raised from the background 7/8” – the width of the wool strips. A great find!
UF208 Confetti Rag Rug
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UF208 Confetti Rag Rug
c.1920
23 ½ x 36
NH
$650

Betsey found this fantastic piece in New Hampshire. It showcases an exuberant confetti-like arrangement of wool and cotton fabrics. This beautiful textural and very graphic piece is perfect for that special place on your wall. It was purchased already mounted and ready to hang as a very unique piece of textile art.
UF205 Amish Stumpwork
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UF205 Amish Stumpwork
Early 20th century
23 ½ x 25 oval
Lancaster, PA
$450

A beautiful and rare piece of Amish textile art that would be a perfect wall hanging or folk art center piece for a table. Wool stumpwork tulips are arranged in a wreath-like formation in perfect Christmas colors on ecru homespun linen. A delicate ¼” crocheted cotton lace edge frames the whole and is a lovely finishing touch. It appears to be hardly used with one slightly shaded area in the center which can be seen in the photograph. Colorful, dimensional and funky this is a fabulous piece of folk art for your home.
UF200 Framed American Quaker Band Sampler
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UF200 Framed American Quaker Band Sampler
Signed Rosalie Roberts, and Dated March 28th 1850
14 ½ x 18 ¾ (includes frame)
PA
$1,400

This is a classic example of an American Quaker sampler from the Roman style alphabet to the geometric floral border. Lovely, muted colors in greens, golds and browns on 35 count fine unbleached linen. Stitches are beautifully executed in cross, cross over one thread, and queen.

Verse:
Mark how the neat assiduous bee
Pattern of frugal industry
Pursues her earnest toil
All day the pleasing task she plies
And to her cell at evening hies
Enriched with golden spoil
She warns us to employ the hours
In gathering stores from learning’s flowers
For these will ever last
These mental charms will fill the place
Of every beauty every grace
When smiling youth is past
F23 “Bambino” Pinto Bean Burlap Bag
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F23 “Bambino” Pinto Bean Burlap Bag
(Five identical bags available: UF 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
c.1963
approx. 21 x 37
Mingo, Kansas
$475 (each)

Yes, we know this piece only dates back to the early 1960’s, which is new in Betsey’s world, but isn’t it wonderful? The Bambino Bean company used these 100 pound burlap bags to package pinto beans until Babe Ruth’s estate stopped the use of the Babe’s image. Betsey bought these five bags on one of her trips across the country over 10 years ago, and then forgot about them until she was up above the barn rummaging for treasures. So, whether you are a Red Sox fan, a Yankee fan, or just a fan of the game…one or more of these pieces would be perfect to add to your collection, and would look great on the wall as you cheer on your teams!

Amish Embroidered Table Runner
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Amish Embroidered Table Runner
1904
apx. 28 x 40
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
$750

This Amish table runner is embroidered in hearts, diamonds and stylized flowers. In a wonderful size for the wall or for a table when it is not being used. Some wear.

UF-IOOF Ingrain Woven Carpet with Odd Fellows Symbols
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UF-IOOF Ingrain Woven Carpet with Odd Fellows Symbols
c.1890
apx. 62 x 66
Found in Pennsylvania
$1800

This piece was originally meant to be a carpet—now it’s art for the wall. Comprised of just two colors, red and black, this carpet is rich with the symbols of the International Order of Odd Fellows. The IOOF was officially founded in Baltimore in 1819 with the charge to “visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan”. This fraternal organization, and later its sister organization for women, the Rebekahs, have gone on to perform many kinds of charitable work, including establishing cemeteries and orphanages.

Symbolic of the “Three Link Fraternity”—friendship, love and truth, are the linked rings with the letters F,L, and T inside. A heart in hand symbolizes charity. The staff on an open book symbolizes the authority of the word of God, and the all-seeing eye represents an ever-present God. A sheaf of arrows represents the weapons of a war against vice. A tent symbolizes an encampment (the three superior degrees of the IOOF are called encampment degrees). Among symbols of the Rebekahs specifically are the beehive, representing the results of a united effort; the dove, representing living peaceably; and the moon and seven stars, representing the value of regularity in work.

The broken column, as seen in the middle of this piece, was a Victorian symbol of untimely death or the loss of the head of a household—we have not been able to find evidence that this is a more specific Odd Fellows symbol. However, one may speculate that the prominent use of the broken column on this piece is related to the death of the man regarded to be the founder of the Rebekahs, politician Schuyler Colfax, in 1885.

This incredible piece of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs memorabilia is in excellent condition and has been professionally hand washed by Betsey.

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