This album square with appliquéd cornucopia is typical of a more naïve style that featured the red and green fabrics popular in other mid 19th-century quilts. These included an almost infinite variety of green-ground prints with black figures and numerous Turkey red cottons-plain or figured fabrics dyed a brilliant scarlet color. The technique of dyeing Turkey red was discovered centuries earlier in the East and developed during the 18th century in France. Other colors were few in these quilts, but sometimes they included solid yellow or yellow-ground fabric with a small dark brown or black figure used. Occasionally motifs cut directly from printed chintz, such as birds or butterflies, could be used in combination with the layers of appliqué cut from plain fabrics.