Rick Rack History

 

Nice edging on dress!

It's a couple of busy days for me and I was grateful that Sue sent this link after yesterday's post about Autumn Leaves quilts.  She was inspired by the photo of the leaf with rick rack embellishment.

This is a great history of rickrack and you can read it here!

Although I've used rickrack on quilts (mostly smalls), I can't find a single photo to show you.  However I do have this link saved on how to use rickrack to embellish your embroidery.

Have you used rickrack on your quilts?  Do share if you have!

Have a great day!

Rickrack

 Rickrack!

Over at "With Strings Attached" Nann has posted some vintage notions she posted.  Of course that got me thinking about rickrack!   You can see the post here.  I never knew about the Wrights coupons that she wrote about.

Many of my local sunbonnet quilts feature dresses that are embellished with rickrack.  

 

There's a lot you can do with rickrack and from time to time I include it in a doll quilt or wallhanging.  Probably one of my favorite things I've seen done with rickrack is this that I found on pinterest:

I looked up the history of Rickrack and found it was invented in the mid 1800s but wasn't called "rickrack" until 1880.  A really good blog post about rickrack history is here.

A popular border from the 1930s: 

1937

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