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Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 4 Earl F Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Summer 1969 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 4 Earl F. Robacker Ada Robacker Martha S. Best Don Yoder Edna Eby Heller See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag Part of the American Art and Architecture Commons, American Material Culture Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Cultural History Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons, Folklore Commons, Genealogy Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, History of Religion Commons, Linguistics Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Robacker, Earl F.; Robacker, Ada; Best, Martha S.; Yoder, Don; Heller, Edna Eby; Craigie, Carter W.; Snellenburg, Betty; Egle, William H.; and Bucher, Robert C., "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 4" (1969). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 37. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/37 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Martha S. Best, Don Yoder, Edna Eby Heller, Carter W. Craigie, Betty Snellenburg, William H. Egle, and Robert C. Bucher This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/37 H ome crafts, like other domestic work of our 2. What were the favorite materials for quilts, forefathers, were usually divided berween the sex qttilt patches, and quilt padding? W here did the and age groups of the folk corrununity. There patch materials come from; were they normally was women's work and there was men's work­ new or used matet'ials? What types of needles there were crafts plied by the mothers and grand­ and thread were med? 1-V hat were "quilting mothers of the household, and those worked at by frames" and how were they used? the fathers and grandfathers. One of the bas ic 3. In the actual qttilting process, what patterns domesti c occupations for women of all ages in were followed in the stitching; did these patterns the winter months was quilting, an art which have names? What sorts of stitching made repu­ combines the skills of seamstress and designer. tations among the women for the finest quilters? First there were "patches," and then there were 4. If you have quilted at "qttilting parties," "blocks," and then "quilts," and fi nall y the "quilt­ describe them in detail. W here were they held, ing" process itself was reached- the stitching of who came to them, and what was their pu.rpose an elaborate pattern over the whole quilt, wh ic h apart from actttal quilting? Were they morning, sometimes formed a counter-des ign ro the more afternoon, or evening affairs? W hat refreshments obvious design formed by the combination of were se·rved? Did the qttilting parties of your colored patches and blocks. mother's or grandmother's day differ from the W hile for urban America quilts became largely ones yOtt remembe·r? passe a few decades ago, in rural Pennsylva nia 5. Do you recall the custom of giving qttilts quilting is still a live art, practiced by farm and as gifts, as for example, a grandmother making village women. In many upstate villages church gift quilts for all of her grandchildren? What and grange groups use some of their winter after­ were "Friendship Qltilts" and how and why were noons to quilt quilts on commiss ion for individuals; they made? a correspondent from Centre County informed 6, Describe cttstoms associated with quilts or us a few yea rs ago that the previous winter their qttilting, as fo r example, the custom of throwing church circle had quilted rwenty-fiv e quilts. a cat into the center of a qttilt held by four un­ While there are some signs that the national married girls, to see which of the girls wou./d be crafts revival is bringing with it an upswing of the first to marry. interest in quilting generally, Pennsylva nians can 7. Where were quilts kept in the farmhouse? ta ke pride that the annua l quilt competitions at 1r/ ere some quilts "show quilts," never 1tSed? the Pennsylvania D utch Folk Festival have received W hat was done with old, wom quilts which national and even international attention, with wefe no longet· respectable to me on beds? our festival quilts displayed in the U. S. Pavilion 8. Why do YOtt think qttilts e1)ent1lall), went at EXPO 1967 in Montreal. Ottt of fashion? W e are gathering marerial on quil ts and quilting 9. Sometimes the technique of quilting was from Festival visirors and readers of Pennsylvania applied to articles of clothing. Can YOtt list and Folklife. Will our expert quilters from any area describe the articles of clothing which were quilted, of Pennsylvania share with us their knowledge and the 1'easom fo1' doing so? of this typical American craft by answering our 10. Please shCl1'e with ttS any 1'hymes, songs, questionaire? prove·rbs, sayings, or jests j1'om yOtt1' home area 1. Name fot· ltS as many traditional names for which refer in any way to qttilts or qttilting. qttilt-pattems as Y0lt can remember from the paJt . Send your replies to: How mmzy of these have YOtt actually pieced and Dr . Don Yoder qttilted? W het'e do you think the names of quilts College Hall, Bo x 36 came from? Explain, please, any tt1Z1tsttal names University of Pennsylvania of qttilts in yottr list. Ph iladelphia , Pa . 19104 Three champion Pennsylvania Dutch quilte1-s at work-Beulah Diehl of Lehigh Co ­ unty, Mab el Snyder of Be1-ks County, and Maggie Ob e1-ho ltze1- of Lancaster- County. :~: -.- ......" .. T~~---~- -­ '-.j= ~ ",u",., ,'r. SUMMER 1969, Vol. XVIII, No.4 Contents EDITOR: 2 Discord in the Garden Dr. Don Yoder EARL F. AND ADA F. ROBACKER EDITORIAL COMM ITTEE: 9 The Folk Festival Seminars: Crafts and Customs of the Year Dr. Earl F. Robacker MARTHA S. BEST Dr. Mac E. Barrick 14 What to Read on the Amish Dr. John A. Hostetler DON YODER Dr. Maurice A. Mook Dr. Phil Jack 20 "Soup's On!" LeRoy Gensler EDNA EBY HELLER 23-26 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS S UBSC RIPTION RATES: FOLK FESTIVAL PROGRAM $4. 00 a year in the United States 27~30 Folk Festival Map on Back Cover and Canada. Single copies $1. 50. 31-34 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS 35 Folk Festival Geisinger MSS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: CARTER W. CRAIGIE The Editor will be glad to consider MSS and photographs sent with a 40 Four Interviews with Powwowers view to publication. When unsuit­ BETTY SNELLENBURG able, and if accompanied by rerurn 46 The First Historian of the Pennsylvania postage, every care will be exer­ Germans cised toward their rerum, although WILLIAM H. EGLE no responsibility for their sa fety is assumed. 50 The Public Sale Sixty Years Ago 51 The Long Shingle PEN N S Y L V A N I A FOLKLIFE, ROBERT C. BUCHER Summer 1969, Vol. 18, No.4. pub­ 56 Contributors to this Issue lished quarterly by the Pennsyl­ vania Folklife Society, Inc., lan­ Quilts and Quilting: caster, Pennsylvania. Subscriptions Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 12 and business correspondence: Box (I nside F1'ont CoveT) 1053, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Edi­ torial correspondence: Dr. Don COVER: Yoder, College Hall , Box 36, Uni­ versity of Pennsylvania, Philadel­ The colorful, fanciful world of th e Pel1nsylv rtnia Dutch Qllilt inlroduces FestivlIl v isitors to historic qllilt patterns of Flower phia, Pennsylva nia 19104. Contents Ga rden , Star of BNhlehelll. DlLuh TlLlips and Dist('lfillks. copyrighted. DOlLble Eagle, Log Cahill . r.r1hirli"g ix-Pointed Star. lI"d (' 1'('11 the Irish Shamrock. /'ri ze Qllilts by ch"lnpioll quilters froTII Entered as second class matter many Dutch cO llllti('s (/re on display in the Festival's QlLilt at lancaster, Pennsy lvania. E x hibit [Tall. - Courtesy of Mrs. Horacc Walters, C ura tor, M onroc County Historical Soci E xceptionally compet ent fraktur bearing all the chamct eTistics of the w ork of George Adam Roth. The W erckhctttser (now " W erkheiser ") family i s still a prominent one i n Monroe County. This piece, in w hich Adam and Eve obviously playa minor role, was found in a store l edger f or the y ears 1801-1843, k ept by another Monr oe Countian, Jacob L earn. 2 Discord In• the Garden By EARL F. and ADA F. ROBACKER Adam and Eve; serpent and tree; temptation and fall­ cally, the serpent is made to bear the responsibility for as with the submerged portion of an iceberg, there is more hav ing cheated mankind Out of the immortality to which, here than meets the eye-and all of it was once above the putatively, he was entitled and for which he had been surface. Some of the Unseen has to do with ophiolatry­ destined. The act of cheating occurred when the serpent serpent worship; some appears to go even further back into took over the tree In Eden-or at least took up residence the mists of the past, with a mingling of various pagan in it. ideas, almost always associated with extra-earthly power Venerati on for, if not actual worship of, serpents as or a Supreme Being. creatures of supra-natural powers is seen in the respect It has been sa id that both serpent and tree are symbols paid to the feathered serpents of the pre-Columbian world, of the sun, and together represent the dual nature of a in particular with the king-serpent god Quetzalcoatl; in Supreme Creator.
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