The Antique Crazy Quilt
The Crazy Quilt and the Aesthetic Movement At the same time, the Aesthetic Movement in England was in full force – an idealistic view of beauty, bringing hand-made artistic items into the interior of the home. And when the women of America discovered this trend, they embraced it. Sunflowers and lilies were symbols of the Aesthetic Movement and these motifs show up embroidered into many of the antique crazy quilts found today. The Crazy Quilt The crazy quilt isn't technically a quilt. It doesn't traditionally have an inner layer for warmth, but is simply two layers front an back. The crazy quilt was used primarily as coverlets in the parlor, as piano shawls, or simply placed on the back of the sofa for decorative reasons.. They were primarily artful. The crazy quilt was most often designed in small blocks as with most patchwork quilts and then the blocks were stitched together with the seams embroidered in to make a cohesive coverlet. The Story of an American Crazy Quilt The qui...