Free Label for Your Richmond Reds Quilt (Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE)

Print this label onto fabric for a period look to your quilt made of my Moda Richmond Reds fabrics.
How to Print

Create a word file or a new empty JPG file that is 8-1/2" x 11".
Click on the image above.
Right click on it and save it to your file.
Print that file out on a pretreated printable fabric sheet that is 8-1/2" x 11". The label should be 5" x 5".

Richmond Female Institute in 1856
The label depicts pre-Civil-War Virginia, the world of ladies' academies such as the Williamsburg Academy in the picture on the label.

Lucy Cobb Institute, Georgia

Hagerstown Female Seminary, Maryland

Salem Female Academy, North Carolina

Ambrotype portrait of teacher and students,about 1860
Apparently there was a fashion for lace collars, stripes and plaids and center parts in the hair.