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Quilt Notes: LONDON ROADS debuted in the Ladies Art Company Catalogue in the late 19th c., #238, along with a similar pattern, except for a different dark and light arrangement, and titled MOSAIC #8 (LAC #336). Carrie Hall illustrated LONDON ROADS with an interesting shift too, and which inspired the illustration here, upper right, by using a fabric with stripes on the edges to indicate the side patches, and seemingly reminiscent of tire tracks, although the piecing appears to have been done with a single scrap of cloth. Hall's original patchwork for this block is online at the University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art (opens in a new window) and well worth a look. Or see Bettina Havig's full-color compendium of CARRIE HALL BLOCKS, pg. 42.
Nancy Page (aka Florence La Ganke) illustrated the same design, except for the direction of the arrows, in her syndicated column on June 28, 1932, and titled it AT THE SQUARE (see her version left, clipped from the Hartford Courant).
For more design names at this site focusing on opposites directions, or the interaction of playful dualities, see:
LEND AND BORROW
FORE AND AFT
ODDS AND ENDS
PUDDING AND PIE
TWO IN ONE
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
LEFT AND RIGHT
CORN AND BEANS
BLACK & WHITE QUILT
CRISS CROSS
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LONDON ROADS / AT THE SQUARE
