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  • This patchwork quilt was made by Daniel Owen in 1880 for Mrs Benjamin Powell of Mitcham House, Mold.
Patchwork quilt made by Daniel Owen in 1880
  • Quilted riding skirt. Black cotton with unusual purple woollen lining. Skirt is pleated into a broad waistband and fastened at the back with two hooks and eyes. Dimensions: 85 cms x 80 cms.
Welsh costume: black quilted skirt with purple flannel lining, 19th century [image 1 of 3]
  • Patchwork quilt featuring red applique baskets on a white background. Hand-stitched quilting in a spiral pattern, which was said to be a Cardiganshire design. Quilt measures 216 x 186 cms.
Patchwork quilt featuring red basket design, 19th century [image 1 of 2]
  • The quilt has been inscribed in ink with the initials S.M. and the date 1905. It is of plain yellow cotton, with a quilting pattern of central circular motif with wavy edge, containing alternating spirals and waves on a trellis ground within a rectangular inner border filled with diamonds containing quatrefoil motifs. The wide outer borders consist of very large veined curving leaf motifs surrounded predominantly by spirals interspersed with occasional flower head and half flower head motifs.
Wholecloth quilt made by Mary Morgans for her brother Stephen in 1905 [image 1 of 2]
  • This quilt comes from a mansion in the Newcastle Emlyn area. It has a central floral motif surrounded by a circular border containing spirals on a rectangular field of trellis, with matching motifs within hemispheres and quarter circles around edge. The inner border is of plain quatrefoil motifs and the middle border of floral motifs with multiple leaves, while the outer border is made up of concentric triangles alternating with tulip motifs with spiralling leaves and rose motifs. This quilt came into the national collections in 1914, and remains one of the earliest examples of Welsh quits in the collection of the Museum of Welsh Life.
Wholecloth yellow silk quilt, late 18th century
  • The quilting pattern consists of rectangular central field with a small circle and a flower head from which veined leaves radiate; a trellis fills a narrow border of overlapping semi-circles with panels of trellis on two sides. The inner border features curving leaves filled with parallel lines while the remainder of the border is filled with flower heads, spirals and wavy lines. The wide outer border of diamond shapes is outlined with single cable twist with shell filling in triangles, and flowerheads and spirals within the diamond shapes. This excellent example of a white quilt was made in Cardiganshire in the mid-nineteenth century and is an excellent example of a white quilt which has survived in superb condition. Dimensions: 265 cm x 240 cm.
Wholecloth quilt, white cotton, stitched with white thread, mid 19th century