The great thing about history, especially quilting history, is that new information can be gleamed and learned from it all the time. Take this quilt for example held in the collection of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Museum. It is over 200 years old and was thought to be made by one quilter, but new information has brought to light the fact that it might not have been made by her, but HER HUSBAND instead. Click through to get the whole story.

From the DAR Museum:

"We are always learning new things about our collection! Though this patchwork single-layer bedspread was always attributed to Elizabeth Kobler whose initials are on it, we now think her husband Barney (one of several anglicized versions we find for him in the records, from the German Bernhard) may be the maker (or co-maker).

German tailors had a tradition of making wool quilts like this as part of their training. Barney and his tailor mentor were German Americans in Berks Co., Pennsylvania.

Recently, a Kobler descendant got in touch to say he'd found a 1768 runaway apprentice ad for Barney, where we learn he was 5'7" with curly dark hair and a slender build. Barney must have made his way back home, as he's listed in tax records as a tailor soon thereafter, and married Elizabeth (whose maiden name was, wait for it, Tayler!) in 1774."

Take a look at the quilt below. (Photo from the DAR Museum Facebook Page)