SOLD 1858 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from German Language Newspaper noicemaker Those striped and checkerboard patterns--

Those striped and checkerboard patterns-- created by way of the natural dyes--are pretty great too

And then a parasol in the other hand

There is a fair amount of wear to the paint

which I believe came out of a Michigan collection but which I found in Maine

SOLD 1858 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from German Language Newspaper noicemaker Those striped and checkerboard patterns--I was excited to find this, and two more listed today, folded up together in a sleeve in Maine this week; I recognized them immediately as old quilting templates, but didn't take the time to open them up in the shop. When I got home I was surprised, and delighted, to find that they are quite early ones the other two cut from the Pennsylvania "Dollar Weekly" and this one, from a newspaper printed in German, dated 1858. Pure Pennsylvania German (if only