Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) Lamont oklahoma This one more methodical than

This one more methodical than explosive

and it gives me no end of pleasure to look at them lined up in a row

and painted the perfect brick red and white

Most are marked with hand-written point values on one side

I can't remember where I first saw a twined Plateau Native "corn husk" bag of this type (typically described as Nez Perce

Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Big Heart (One of Two More Just Found) Lamont oklahoma This one more methodical thanThe is a 19th century hand forged iron quilting clamp, with one of this sort often referred to as a "heart clamp" for the heart shaped finial on the screw. It would have been used for clamping the fabric layers of a quilt (top, batting, backing) to the rails of a frame while working it (sparing the quiltmaking from laborious pinning, etc.) Once a month I go up to midcoast Maine for a show, and once a month, for a few months now, I bring home an old