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,.JIi^PFteigDtBAIi>BOAP*Wh^n the railroad hit town. j|*,wes an ©vent to be celebratocf. In t851 a weaver in what is now Wheeling, W.Va., made a coyeriet to commemorate the building of the “Hemfield” Railr road. Fieldcrest has copied his locomotive design—: and misspelling—in toweis (gold, blue, red) and a bedspread (blue only). Ldcomotlve in picture is from the Smithsonian’s collection of train models. f ROSE - A girl named Patience was 13 when she I rhade a small quilt for her dowry in the I I840’s. More than a century later, one of her descendants gave it to the Smithsonian. Fieldcrest has adapted her carefully stitched ^ flower pattern into this elegant design for t no-Iron sheets, blankets, comforter: also, i towels and rug. (The window curtains in this picture were especially made from Patience Rose sheets. Write Fieldcrest for directions.) :40th Street, New York, N.Y. 10018 PRINTING BLOCK ROSE • A delicate pattern taken from a set of embroidery stamping blocks. Widely used from the 1850‘s to 1870’s, these blocks enabled individuals to stamp their own designs on their own cloth at home. Fieldcrest recaptures the resulting look in no-iron sheets and a comforter.
The Fieldcrest Mill Whistle (Spray, N.C.)
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