Grandmother Clark's Authentic Early American Patchwork Quilts
Date1932
Mediumink
DimensionsOverall: 19.4 x 26.6 cm
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Carol Collins, 1977
Object number1977.136.044
Label TextMakers of quilt patterns adopted different strategies to attract customers, including making up “helpful relatives” who seemed available to offer help. The W. L. M. Clark Company created “Grandmother Clark.” For their part, Virginia Snow Studios and Collingbourne Mills partnered to market patterns under the name “Grandma Dexter.” These fictitious grandmothers also helped sell patterns by linking quilts to a quaint, old-fashioned past that so many admired in the 1920s and 1930s.
NamePamphlet, Instruction
After 1946
January 1891
Newcombe, Mrs, Kent County
c. 1863