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Editor LESTER GRUNDY O In 1840, a little girl named Patience stitched a rose-trellised
hope chest quilt, in 1870, a 12-year-old named Aimee dipped into her mother's scrap bag
and put together a silken patchwork throw. In West Virginia in 1851, an unknown itinerant
weaver commemorated the opening of the Hempfield Railroad in a double-faced counter
pane. These and many other souvenirs of our ancestors' industry and design skills have
fortunately found their way to the Smithsonian Institution, that keeper of so much of
America's precious past. NOW, FOR THE FiRST TIME in its history, reproduction of such d
cherished documents has been authorized, and Fieldcrest, with modern skills of its own, is “
putting this heritage into everyone's home in its "American Treasures" collection of sheets, «
bedspreads, comforters and towels. On this page, see "Patience Rose," the little girl's ^
dowry translated into percale sheets, a comforter, a printed blanket—and the sheet pattern =e,
quilted to upholster a headboard and skirt a box spring. IN THE HOME of Interior De-
signer Clifford H. Stanton, the medallions and railroad-train border of "Hempfield Rail- :^*''^
road" (top left) are reproduced in a reversible. Jacquard-weave counterpane, faithful even |
to the original misspelling of the railroad's name, with matching terry towels (far /eft). ^
THE DESIGN in "Federal Bouquet" towels (left) derives from a 19th-century counterpane I
in the Smithsonian's "First Ladies' Hall," and also patterns a printed bedspread with g
old-fashioned garden-bed blossoms and flowering stripes bracketed in flowering vines.©
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.MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1974