I saw this lovely coverlet for sale on ebay last fall. Its a Wandering Vine pattern, also known as Snail Trail or Cat's Paw, among many other names. This was a very popular pattern for home weavers because it was so much fun to see the pattern emerge.
Two summers (more than a year) ago, it seemed like there were a lot of these on the market. There were so many of them at the time, I wanted to avoid them ... but now that I'm thinking about making one myself, they look a lot more interesting ... and barely any on the market for sale now.
Gay McGeary did a nice overview of this "Cat Track and Dog Paw" pattern in the following presentation at the Coverlet College in 2015. I wish I could have heard her speak, as the notes only say so much ... There are 2 antique coverlets featured in the presentation -- both of them very similar to this one.
Here are some of the other names this patterns goes by:
- Cat Track & Snail Trail
- Cats Paw Blooming Vine Old Girl
- Dog Tracks Flowering Vine Old Roads
- Rattlesnakes Running Vine Snowballs
- Rattlesnakes Skin Trailing Vine Soldier Return
- Rattlesnakes Trail Winding Vine Winding Roadhttp://www.amazon.com/
- Snakes Skin Vine Around the
- Stump
- Snakes Trail Ocean Wave
Names per Lou Tate in her book Kentucky Coverlets
There are 2 ways to make these "woven as drawn in" and "rose fashion." I'm still not quite sure what that means yet, or how they differ, but I think it has to do with the treadling. That is something I will have to figure out as I develop the planning documents for making one of my own ...
Yup-- This will be the next coverlet, now that the Mountain Cucumber Coverlet is finished. ;-)
Detail of border
