{"id":510,"date":"2012-12-13T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/13\/a-christmas-cheater-cloth-2\/"},"modified":"2012-12-13T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T19:47:00","slug":"a-christmas-cheater-cloth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/a-christmas-cheater-cloth-2.html","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Cheater Cloth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nLast night we had a snowfall in Santa Fe.  Not a lot, just enough to cover the
\nground.  Everyone was quite excited,
\nfirstly because we have had no moisture at all for months and secondly our
\nweather has been unusually warm for this time of year, not very holiday-like to
\nshop in tee shirts.<\/div>\n
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\nI was especially pleased because the topic for today is a
\npiece of fabric over 150 years old that depicts the winter spirit.  This is a variation of what is termed
\n\u201ccheater cloth\u201d.  In the mid to late
\n19thC there was a great interest in quilting. 
\nLovely fabric imported from England and France was readily available and
\npiecework (patchwork, although strictly speaking the term \u201cpatchwork\u201d refers to
\nappliqu\u00e9) replaced whole cloth quilts using small pieces of various printed
\nfabrics.  Some fabric designers decided
\nto replicate the look of piecework by printing a \u201cpseudo\u201d patchwork using
\ndifferent patterned and colored cloth in traditional quilt patterns.  This was, of course, just a variation of the
\nwhole cloth quilt, but quilters would use quilt stitches to make the pieces
\nappear to have been separately sewn.<\/div>\n
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\nThis is a beautiful example of a cheater, made even more
\nimpressive by the use of turkey red dye.<\/div>\n
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\nPopular, but short lived, was the use of luxurious fabrics
\nsuch as velvet and silk to create what was termed \u201ccrazy quilting\u201d which was
\nembellished with ornate embroidery and the addition of small trinkets.  These textiles were never intended to be
\nused for bedcovers as the fabrics were often too fragile for heavy wear and
\ncould not be cleaned.  Generally, they
\nwere for show, demonstrating the skills of the maker and draped over large
\npieces of furniture so popular at the time.<\/div>\n
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\nThis winter cheater cloth, c 1840, shows various vignettes of outdoor
\nactivities, that are \u201cpatched\u201d on a rich dark brown background with faux
\nembroidered stitchery, and sprigs of holly as fillers. There is skating,
\ntobogganing, ice hockey, ice sailing and a visit to the palace. My favorite is
\na patch of two men with kite-like sails on their backs skating over the
\nice.  I would imagine the wind filling
\nthe sails would result in their going backward rather than forward, but then
\nwhat do I know of Victorian winter sports?<\/div>\n
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\nSo maybe more snow is coming and skiers and skaters
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A Christmas Cheater Cloth Last night we had a snowfall in Santa Fe.  Not a lot, just enough to cover the ground.  Everyone was quite excited, firstly because we have had no moisture at all for months and secondly our weather has been unusually warm for this time of year, not very holiday-like to shop…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,69,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheater-cloth","category-european-fabric","category-quilting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}