VENETIAN DESIGN
Grid & piecing divisions
(top/side edges: 5-7-7-7-5)
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Quilt Notes: VENETIAN DESIGN was first illustrated in print in the late 19th c. in the Ladies Art Company Catalogue, #115. It is listed in Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS under an interesting category described as "Octagon in the Center." See page, 431. Jinny Beyer has a gorgeous section of wheel-shapes in her QUILTER'S ALBUM OF PATCHWORK PATTERNS, p.294-6, where this design stands out because of the squares turning the sides instead of the usual compass-like triangular points. The design is far more simple than all the others, and yet just as energetic, with its own sense of spinning.
How many quilt designs beginning with the letter "V" can anyone name? This site has only three others so far: VARIATION OF SAILBOATS is equally prized for its simplicity and likewise brings to mind a seascape. The other two are V-BLOCK, and VORTEX — both shape names and exceedingly dynamic. Compare the turning squares round the perimeter of this block to ROLLING STONE.
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VENETIAN DESIGN
