Stylized variations on the floral theme can have significant graphic impact when composed of attractive combinations of shapes and colors. Simply designed album blocks with no pretense to realism, such as this example, can often be found alongside squares of the most sophisticated style. This design appears with slight differences on multiple quilts, suggesting the existence of a print source or pattern. Appliqué is a 19th-century name for "applied work" in which pieces of fabric are sewn, embroidered, or otherwise fastened to another ground material to create a design. Appliqué is usually completed using either blind stitches, in which the raw edge of the fabric is turned under and sewn down so that the stitches are invisible or nearly invisible on the surface (as in this example), or buttonhole stitches, which both hide the raw edge of the applied fabric and add a decorative element. In this square, a variety of appliqué methods are employed, the simplest of which is seen in the single-layered appliqué used to form the stems and leaves of the flower motifs.