Floorcloth Design: Early American Quilt Floorcloth

Historic Collection

Floorcloth Size: 43" x 43"
Floorcloth Colors: Pine Yellow, Colonial Red, Navy Blue, Meadow Green, Black, Yellow Ochre, Brown Antique Glaze

Design Origin: Sunflower motif from Leach-Overlock house, Alewive, Maine. Other Inside motif from Berry house, Pittsfield, New Hampshire. corner motif from Ebenezer Waters house, West Sutton, Massachusetts. Border form Daniel Kingsbury house, Brookfield, Vermont

Floorcloth created for Early American Life Magazine

Design Village has been selected for the 2006 Early American Life Directory of Traditional American Crafts to be published in the June issue. Our Early American Quilt Floorcloth was chosen for historical accuracy and museum quality work. It's a great honor to be selected as one of the foremost floorcloth makers by a jury of museum curators, university professors, antiques dealers and collectors.

Floorcloth in progress

Floorcloth after folding the edges
and applying the glaze