Tell Me How You Like Your Tea

"Ladies All I Pray Make Free.

And Tell Me How You Like Your Tea."

If my china cabinet wasn't full of quilts here's what I'd collect.

Women's Suffrage china.

Saucer

Another version

Cup bottom

The Victoria and Albert Museum has a black saucer in this series, which they credit to Thomas Fell & Company in Newcastle, England, about 1850, lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O149287/saucer-thomas-fell-co/

Here's a later cream pitcher

John Carr , Low Lights Pottery, about 1870

North Shields, England

Angel of Freedom 

Designed by Sylvia Pankhurst

Bone China

H. W. Williamson, Longton, England

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/177702/h-m-williamson-&-sons-womens-social-and-political-union-white-porcelain-teapot-set-1909

In the early 20th century the British Women's Social & Political Union commissioned china for Suffragette tea rooms. The WSPU Angel of Freedom was used at a tea room at a fundraising fair in 1909.

Angel of Freedom and Scottish Thistle

Commissioned from the Diamond China Company for 

a WSPU Exhibition held in Glasgow 1910

Read more about British china here:

http://womanandhersphere.com/2012/09/11/suffrage-stories-suffragettes-and-tea-rooms-suffragette-tea-from-suffragette-china/

And in this book preview

http://books.google.com/books?id=a2EK9P7-ZMsC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=angel+freedom+thistle+glasgow&source=bl&ots=aMdUl8zpwu&sig=LLsgwsTPgQb7ZDIZIcVXibBqmT8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=npVFUvylIJCK9gSWm4GYCg&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=angel%20freedom%20thistle%20glasgow&f=false

Votes for Women demitasse cups

Bavarian China commissioned by 

National American Woman Suffrage Association 

American suffrage organizations also commissioned china. Kenneth Florey characterizes this gold trimmed cup and saucer as the most widely distributed suffrage china. It says "Votes For Women" in the gold band.

Votes For Women

This original on this blue and white version is thought to have been commissioned by American Suffrage leader Alva Belmont in 1913 for a tea house at her Newport, Rhode Island, mansion. She had English pottery John Maddock and Sons do a rather extensive line of dinnerware.

Reproductions are available today.

Read about American and British china here:

http://womansuffragememorabilia.com/woman-suffrage-memorabilia/china-and-stoneware/

Here are two sites that offer reproductions of the Belmont china:

1) Washington's Sewall Belmont House Museum

https://secure.sewallbelmont.org/np/clients/sewallbelmont/catalog.jsp;jsessionid=463CAC0E56DDEBF4C2E9EB115743F4BB?catalog=1

2) http://newportstyle.net/Votes-for-Women/

Jo's Top

Grandmother's Choice

by Jo Tokla

68" x 79"

Jo has finished her sampler top---Blocks on point with striped edge triangles and a checkerboard border.

She used grays and yellows.

And kept up with the weekly block.

With a few improvements by her.

She couldn't do a Sunbonnet Sue so here's an adaptation of an old Nancy Page design

for the Brother/Sister Quilt

Her coffee cup is positively 3-D.

Read her blog post here:
jotokla.com/2013/10/05/block-forty-nine-an-arc/
Her layout sketches from EQ7 are here.
http://jotokla.com/grandmothers-choice/layout-ideas/

Suffrage Memorabilia

Kenneth Florey has a book out this year called Women's Suffrage Memorabilia: An Illustrated Historical Study, in which he frames the history of the women's rights movement in posters, pins, photos and cartoons that illustrated the fight.

He also has a webpage on the topic:
http://womansuffragememorabilia.com/

I just ignored the sign-in pop-up by clicking on the X.
Check out the various topics. He has the subject of knick-knacks, graphics and propaganda covered.

Florey is a retired English professor at Southern Connecticut State University and a long time collector of Suffrage ephemera. He also keeps a bibliography of other books on the topic on the right.

And here's a blog post with more books on Women's Suffrage:
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/printers-row/2010/08/books-womens-suffrage.html

Sets & Color

Rosemary used white to pull together a lot of color.

This week: Finished tops in alternate color schemes with

suffrage imagery. I've Photoshopped some of the pictures,

squaring them up and adding some parts missing from the photos.

Karen in Tucson

Bright colors side by side anchored with browns.

Ed 

Color complements blue-green and red-orange in

an on-point set.

Artist Duncan Grant won a British poster contest

with Handicapped!

Honas52

Color pulled together with a high-contrast check in

the cornerstones.

A 1916 Calendar

Quilting Piece by Piece

Icy blues and subtle golds

Coloring Outside the Lines

Jo Morton repros with an emphasis on muted greens

and warm browns.

Charlene's All Plaid

Red, white, blue and grayed shades.