,.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.