Cigar Band Top, c. 1910 (Fancy Quilts)
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Cigar Band Top, c. 1910Maker: Anna Brazeau When she married Dr. Stephen Brazeau in 1906 in Asotin, Washington, Anna Williams was 37 and raising a 12-year old daughter from a previous marriage. Encouraged by popular advertising, she fashioned a colorful home decoration made from her husband's silk cigar bands, carefully embroidering along the vertical rows. But she never finished. |