Quilts were made primarily by women ... 1854 - 1858 Ward- Harrison "Love Apple" Appliqued Quilt National Museum of American History 1855 - 1860 Millie Medaris's "Ocean Wave" Quilt National Museum of ...

The sunflower is associated with the Aesthetic Movement, especially Oscar Wilde. I have no idea what the Pennsylvania maker of the Sunflowers Quilt (1860-80) knew or didn’t know about him, but the ...