Family heirlooms are the theme for this month’s column, including a fine example of an American “crazy quilt,” a porcelain night light, an Early American pattern glass carafe, an aeronautical school ...

At last week’s Lancaster-Lebanon Quilt Show, Wayne Kern carried two family heirloom quilts past the art quilts, the quilted sneaker kits and the $10,000 sewing machines. One quilt was lightweight, ...

SPECIALTY: Nineteenth- and early-20th-century American quilts. STITCH IN TIME: The earliest date back to the 1700s, but most American quilts were made between the 1850s and 1870s. QUILTING CAPITALS: ...

APPRAISER: Well, pieces such as this are called crazy quilts, and they were made all over the United States, so it's not regional, and they are made primarily of silk fabric, and they were done in ...