If the fervor over the zigzag pattern in the sold-out Missoni for Target collection has made you eager to add visual excitement to your décor, consider the zigzag in antique quilts and hooked rugs at NYC’s FISHER HERITAGE.

Owner Laura Fisher so enjoys the dynamic pattern that it is always found in her vast range of pieced quilts dating from the early 19th to the mid 20th century, and in geometric hooked rugs. Whether the quilts contain just two colors or a multitude of printed cottons, the impact is brilliantly graphic, as it is in hooked rugs that combine variegated wool strips that animate their flat surfaces. The zigzag design is timeless; a hundred years hence it will remain a desirable, collectible image.

Sometimes called “Streak of Lightning” for its resemblance to that natural phenomenon, the zigzag is especially dramatic in older richly colored wool quilts.

Among the choices available in the gallery now are:
ZIGZAG PIECED QUILT, late 18th-early 19th century, indigo and ivory printed linen, New York State

STREAK OF LIGHTNING PIECED QUILT, late 19th-early 20th century, various wools accented with black, PA Mennonite

ZIGZAG PIECED QUILT, c. 1910, slate and red chambray cotton, Ohio

STREAK OF LIGHTNING PIECED QUILT c. 1920, , printed cottons, Perkiomen Valley, PA

ZIGZAG PIECED QUILT, late 19th c, red-orange and tobacco wool, PA Mennonite

STREAK OF LIGHTNING PIECED QUILT, c. 1930s, sage, rose, slate cotton, PA

DIVIDED STAR ON ZIGZAG GROUND HOOKED RUG, wool on burlap, c. 1940s

CHEVRON STREAK OF LIGHTNING HOOKED RUG, wool on burlap, c. 1930s

INTERLOCKING ZIGZAGS HOOKED RUG, wool on burlap, c. 1890s

ZIGZAG HOOKED RUG, multicolor wools on burlap with multiple borders, c. 1930s

STAIR STEPS ZIGZAG HOOKED RUG, wool on burlap, c. 1940s

FISHER HERITAGE GALLERY is open Monday through Friday from 11:00 to 4:00 or by appointment. Contact us for further information and photos of other selections.

Contact: Laura Fisher

t/ 212.838-2596 email/fisherheritage@yahoo.com web/www.laurafisherquilts.com