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Victorian Quilt Rack Plans?
I'm looking for plans of a "victorian" quilt rack that FWW had many years ago. It had a twin arched "rail" that turned spindles fitted into. I've since lost THAT issue, and am looking to build another one like it. So far, no luck finding either the old issue or, the "plans". Help?
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(post #92592, reply #1 of 21)
In the interim til I can find the article for you I might suggest Googling vicorian quilt rack. Got several interesting hits.
Found an article by Kelly Mehler - A Kentucky Quilt Rack in issue #84 so far.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 5/5/2009 10:30 am ET by KiddervilleAcres
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
(post #92592, reply #2 of 21)
Thank you, sir.
give me a picture, I'll give you a finished piece
(post #92592, reply #4 of 21)
I don't think the one in the article was quite like the one your'e looking for. Did you get a chance to Google it? I saw some very nice looking victorian quilt racks when I Googled for them but I don't recall seeing any plans though.
Let me know and I'll see what else I might be able to find for you. Haven't searched in Knots so I'll give that a twirl.
Oh, and sir? You musta been talkin to someone else, eh? Seems like some sort of higher being or sumthin. 'Bout the only elevated status I get these days is when I put on me workboots. They make me 'bout 1/4" taller.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 5/5/2009 10:08 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
(post #92592, reply #3 of 21)
Bod I did that and I only got... Did you mean: victorian quilt rack
;>)
Have a great day.. Life is wonderful even if you are having a bad day!
(post #92592, reply #5 of 21)
Will, I got the same thing. I spelled it vicorian!
The dang thing knew what I was lookin for anyway!
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 5/5/2009 10:18 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
(post #92592, reply #7 of 21)
I rechecked my records (such as they are) and that "victorian" was actually a "Windsor" quilt rack. Sorry about that, Sir.
give me a picture, I'll give you a finished piece
(post #92592, reply #8 of 21)
Ok, I try again. This quilt rack was a plan in FWW back in the early 90s. It had a row of spindles down the center line of the rack between the two "dowel" rods that held the quilts. A double rail of sorts held the tops of the spindles. The double rail had an "arch" in the middle. The one I made back then was out of white oak with a "brazil crate wood" that look like mahogany for the spindles. The spindles had a flat profile in the center and was rounded on both ends. Anybody seen this?
give me a picture, I'll give you a finished piece
(post #92592, reply #10 of 21)
was actually a "Windsor" quilt rack..
Damn.. I have been Googlin' "victorian" for days!
Have a great day.. Life is wonderful even if you are having a bad day!
(post #92592, reply #11 of 21)
Working from memory (that's scary!) I started to make some of the parts for this quilt rack. I did make ONE of those spindles, and that was a little scary on the lathe. I cut the "blank to a "rough" size and shape, chucked it up in the lathe and tried to round both ends. Hmm, not quite a good idea. The blank had more moves than a buggy whip, even with my hand as a steady rest. Took the thing out of the lathe( whew) and finished shaping it at the vise. A little spokeshave work finished the rounded parts, and a block plane (old Stanley 110) did the rest of the shaping. The "flat" area between the round end ( ends are about 1/2" in diameter) "flairs out to about 2". I also thinned down the flats towards the outside edge on both faces. The edges are about 1/4" thick. The "transion" between the round and flat is about 1" in radius. I did get the two top "rails" bandsawn out, spokeshaved, planed and sanded to form the "arch" I need for the top rail. The bottm rail is just a straight piece of 1x, about 2" wide. The two end post are glued up ( about 1-3/4 square) and waiting to be turned. They will have two square sections, one near the top( just below a turned knob) for the "arms" and the top rails. The second square section is near the bottom, to "house" the bottom rail and the feet. A second knob is below this second square section. In between, there is a little "fancy" turning going on, just how much remains to be seen. All of this is out of white oak. Wish me luck.
give me a picture, I'll give you a finished piece
(post #92592, reply #12 of 21)
Quilt rack is done. There were seven "spindles" down the center line of the rack. Each had to be bandsawn to rough shape and then spokeshaved to final profile. No lathe work here, the 1/2" thick stock was rounded using the spokeshave. Picture this: first 4-1/2" was round (like a dowel), then the spindles "flaired out" to 2" wide, this area was then block planed to a "knife edge" on the outside of the part. The "flaired" section was about 9" long, counting where it transistioned into the 2" wide area. Then the rest of this 21" long spindle was again rounded like a dowel. The first rounded part of this spindle went into a straight "stretcher" of 1" thick stock(white oak) the stretcher was a piece about 1"x2"x28-1/4" long. This was counting the 1/2" long tenons on each end. The top stretcher? two pieces of white oak, bandsawn into an "arch" shape. These pieces were 1" wide by 1/2" thick by 28-1/4" long, with those same 1/2 deep tonons on each end. When looking at this assembly, think "Brass Bed". Posts were also white oak, with a turned top "knob" , a bottom knob, and a turned middle section. Where the stretchers met the post were square sections. Add some arms and feet and two 7/8" dowels and we're done. Note: those spindles were made from one piece of oak, two pieces of pine, and four pieces of poplar, all chosen for their grain. Piece was stained a Minwax "Dark Walnut" and three coats of poly. Oh, and on top of the post's "top knobs" , a 3" long "shaker peg" that gave the knob a "handle" like you'd see in a mortar and petsel set. Total time for this rack( counting finish) was about 15 hours. Man, I'm getting SLOW in my old age.
give me a picture, I'll give you a finished piece
(post #92592, reply #13 of 21)
Man, I'm getting SLOW in my old age. Tell me about it!
A picture would be in order I would think. My middle daughter is asking me to make something like a quilt rack but for very large needle-point work.
She just finished a large work (to me it is large, Maybe 4 foot by 4 foot. She made a pattern from a silk work we got in China about 5 years ago. It took 5 years to complete in her spare time. As a teacher and two little ones, I know she has little spare time. Her needle point is (I think) a mixture of silk and cotton but I and not sure.
I sure wish I could get her to take a picture of it but she thinks it is not that good. Hell, I think it's perfect but then again I only made one little needle work as a child. My Mother insisted I try but finally she gave up. Guess she ran out of patience...
My daughters work is of some old Emperor and his Queen and other objects in the background.
While in Chine I spent almost a whole day in a small factory just watching about 20 young girls (apprentices I would assume, because of their age and because some older women were always checking up on them). They were making needle point on silk cloth, with colored silk threads. Some of the girls had, I'd bet, 50 or more needles working on the object. All different colored threads.
I had a free day because my daughter was someplace doing 'paper work' for the adoption. I thought the day was so well spent I payed for a dinner for everyone at the little factory. Maybe 40 people. A HUGE cost. I think the total came to about $300.00 for everything and that included a taxi ride back home to all the girls that needed one.
China was strange but not any stranger that around my neighborhood... Great fun there and very nice people. But then again, I traveled the world working and I never had many problems anywhere I went. A few but always worked out without loss of life...
Edited 6/5/2009 11:04 pm by WillGeorge
Have a great day.. Life is wonderful even if you are having a bad day!
(post #92592, reply #14 of 21)
Still working on the HOW to post pictures part on the pages. If you can find WOOD Magazine's Forums, check out my "homepage" under pictures. The quilt rack ( and a few other things) will be there.
give me a picture, I'll give you a finished piece
(post #92592, reply #18 of 21)
As in..
http://www.woodmagazine.com/dgroups/wood/publicGalleryPhoto.jsp?plckPhotoID=33c2a4cd-9c7b-4cde-bd21-350708a10f8e&plckGalleryID=2793650b-42a8-4d13-9f79-7d229d0cf7e6
Nice work I'd say...
Have a great day.. Life is wonderful even if you are having a bad day!
(post #92592, reply #19 of 21)
That would be the one. Four different woods, all "blended" to make it look "old". Thanks for looking.
give me a picture, I'll give you a finished piece
(post #92592, reply #20 of 21)
Also, if you click on "whitedog" in the WOOD forums, you will dail up my "Home Page". Go to the "pictures"section and check out some of the other items. WARNING: There is a "headless horseman" in a couple of the pictures. Again, thanks for the comments>
give me a picture, I'll give you a finished piece
(post #92592, reply #21 of 21)
Just a detail of the spindles.
give me a picture, I'll give you a finished piece
(post #92592, reply #9 of 21)
Just pullin' your chain a bit!
Have a great day.. Life is wonderful even if you are having a bad day!
(post #92592, reply #15 of 21)
"Found an article by Kelly Mehler - A Kentucky Quilt Rack in issue #84 so far."
Hmm - I read through this topic and looked up the article because my grandmother that passed away a couple of years ago bequeathed a large collection of quilts that my great grandmother made anywhere between 1890 and 1925 or so. The preservation advice we got was to put them in a cloth slipcase made of a sheet and store them in a closet, but that sort of seemed to defeat the purpose of them, regardless of how valuable they may be on the antiques market (which was sort of shocking, btw - anything "handmade" and older than a person's likely to live brings a lot of money).
So a quilt rack is in order. The one Kelly designed looks good, but one thing struck me about the article that was truly hilarious. What would take all of 10 minutes to cut out on the bandsaw, clean up with a spokeshave, and mortise in 3 minutes with a mortise chisel was instead accomplished with router jig that certainly looks like it would take twice as long to go get the parts for, build, and tune than the project itself!
I sort of "get it" if you're going to make 10 or 15 of these, but the allergic reaction that a lot of WWs had to hand tools in the 1990s certainly shows in this article. ;-)
(post #92592, reply #16 of 21)
Hi David,
Here is one that I made years ago. The posts were purcased at an auction that the local Ethan Allen factory used to sponsor for the volunteer fire department. I didn't have a lathe at the time.
It's been stored over the garage for several years now and needs a finish applied.
I made it for my mother who did quite a bit of quilting. The Methodist church has a yearly sale of quilts made locally and some of the quilts fetch a handsome sum of money, especially the older ones.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
(post #92592, reply #17 of 21)
Thanks for the picture - that's a more traditional form that has more appeal to me. Yeah, the funny thing about antique quilts is the rather shocking appraisal of my great grandmother's. The appraisal varied by the size, the era of the fabric in them, the stitching pattern, and the colors, but the end result was $2000 to as much as $5000. I think my great grandmother (I knew her - she lived into low 100's) would've viewed appraisals like that with great suspicion.
(post #92592, reply #6 of 21)
I just did a search in here ( quilt rack ) and found quite a few racks and some discussions about victorian quilt racks as well. Good discussion about a finish for one also. A lot more important aspect than I realized.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!