Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed Carlotta huse and standing in front of

and standing in front of a backdrop with great spindly trees to one side

I'd think it has well over a hundred years on it but remains in fine structural shape

and carved details around the perimeter to enhance its "shell

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Based on others I have seen

Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed Carlotta huse and standing in front ofTumbling blocks quilts are my favorite so optically compelling, and keeping the eye forever moving around. This piece a fragment or all there ever was I'm not sure consists of hundreds of small fabric squares (most of them silk it appears to me) sewn together, with white basting stitches which would be used to secure the quilt top to a backing still in place; I have not removed it from the frame so am not sure what it was backed with. I rather like