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LAC No.6071-Tulip Garden

1930-1939
Connie Chunn
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
A quilt pattern published by the Ladies Art Company.
A quilt pattern published by the Ladies Art Company. The Ladies Art Company placed small ads in ladies magazines and farm papers for their catalog. From the catalog, the pattern was ordered and mailed to the customer. The LAC was the first business to offer hundreds of quilt patterns in a mail order catalog. The patterns consisted of a 3” pattern card featuring a color suggestion for the quilt block, and an envelope containing full size, tan tissue paper templates (without seam allowance or any markings) of each shape needed to complete the block. (The earliest versions of the 3" pattern cards were hand painted with water colors by the owner's children.) As early as 1938, mimeographed sheets were included with fabric yardage, labeled templates with seam allowances and line drawings of a portion of a completed quilt or the full completed quilt.
MSUM Acc. #2009:9.1

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