Interesting News - Small Red Welsh Quilt

I showed you this quilt before Christmas, it is a child sized Welsh quilt in red and tan cotton sateen. I recently received an interesting email from Clare Claridge, who is an expert on Welsh quilters and quilting designs. The email reads: Hi Pippa, just noticed this little beauty on your blog 10/12/13 and thought that you might be interested in the following information: It is an RIB quilt made in Aberdare - the design is shown in the Country Industries Catalogue: "Quilting - Beautiful English [!] Needlework" fig 23 p18. Size about 3 ft x 2ft. Price in sateen £1.6.6 Also, photo in Muriel Rose's sample book for The Little Gallery and a drawing of the design at the Weymyss School of Needlework (Scotland). Hope that this is of interest, do you know where it came from? Of course I was thrilled at this news. 

The vendor bought it at auction, either in Crosshands or Carmarthen. £1.6.6 in 1930 was about £50 in today's money, so not a cheap item.

Here is another photo of the quilt - the leaf pattern was very popular, and according to Janet Rae in her article in QS12, was much used at the Weymyss School in Scotland as well (along with Durham designs, but curiously, no Scottish motifs).

Here is the photo in the QS article. You can see that the Weymyss quilt (unfinished) is made in a better fabric, silk not sateen, and the design is slightly different. There are two central leaf motifs, not one, and the edge leaf motifs are smaller and more numerous. I am really pleased to have an item that is definitely RIB, and thank Clare for her expertise.