SOLD 1858 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from German Language Newspaper noicemaker Striking on the wall

Striking on the wall

Including base: 3 3/4" tall

Those striped and checkerboard patterns-- created by way of the natural dyes--are pretty great too

Looks like a few very old

attaching to the rotating platform upon which the couple stand--by turning it manually

SOLD 1858 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from German Language Newspaper noicemaker Striking on the wallI was excited to find this, and two more listed today, folded up together in a sleeve in Maine this week; I recognized them immediately as old quilting templates, but didn't take the time to open them up in the shop. When I got home I was surprised, and delighted, to find that they are quite early ones the other two cut from the Pennsylvania "Dollar Weekly" and this one, from a newspaper printed in German, dated 1858. Pure Pennsylvania German (if only