Quilt Notes: This version of the NO NAME STAR, also referred to simply as NO NAME, or NO NAME PATCH, is illustrated in Rhoda Ochser Goldberg's QUILTING AND PATCHWORK DICTIONARY, 1988 as a four-patch design (see left). But there are many other, quite different designs out there using these same titles — each quilt block collection consulted for this page wonderfully displayed a different pattern. In this case, the "No Name" title probably refers to the diagonal bands, which would usually have family names, or the names of the quilters, sewn in. Notice the NO NAME secondary pattern in this version (scroll down to see the tiling) exhibits a MAYFLOWER BLOCK with a square in the center. Lightly stepped a yellow star To its lofty place, Loosed the Moon her silver hat From her lustral face. All of evening softly lit As an astral hall — Father, I observed to Heaven, You are punctual.  (from Emily Dickinson's Nature Mysticism)