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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 3482491, member: 111&quot;]Eh, those Ruby Lane &#039;Real or Repro&#039; pages aren&#039;t always quite right, and certainly not comprehensive (the author couldn&#039;t find an example for the &#039;New&#039; zig-zag, so she just edited the &#039;Old&#039; pic and drew on threads?).&nbsp; The only imported copies of traditional American pattern quilts I&#039;ve seen were Chinese, have seen pretty Indian quilts with traditional fabrics or velvet in simple patchwork patterns, can&#039;t recall seeing any quilts identified as from Haiti, but that doesn&#039;t really mean anything at all - Chinese quilts vary in quality, as illustrated by the Smithsonian quilts shown in the article.&nbsp; Note that the OP&#039;s quilt is bound, though as the author correctly says, the majority of imported quilts are not.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s just an odd quilt, with anomalies (believe the crib or wall-hanging size is uncommon for a Chinese quilt), and while that zig-zag stitching bothers me, the combination with hand-stitched applique is weird, usually if they&#039;re using the zig-zag, the applique is done with it also (and not proud of it, but as a teenager in the &#039;70s, with a brand new zig-zag machine, sold a lot of Sunbonnet Girl patchwork pillows at a crafts shop, the applique quickly done with zig-zag).&nbsp; The Chinese quilts I&#039;ve seen with the applique hand-stitched, have typically used fabric for the stems and vines as well...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These two quilts are by the same Chinese manufacturer:</p><p><br /></p><p>Zig-zagged:&nbsp; <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yyuhcu46" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://tinyurl.com/yyuhcu46" rel="nofollow">https://tinyurl.com/yyuhcu46</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]303879[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hand-stitched:&nbsp; <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5k3v3jj" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://tinyurl.com/y5k3v3jj" rel="nofollow">https://tinyurl.com/y5k3v3jj</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]303880[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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