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LEXINGTON —
Instead of commonplace designs like flowers or snowflakes, seamstress Celestia A. Milliken decorated her colorful quilt in 1908 with the square and compass and 70 other secret symbols of Freemasonry.
Designed by a member named Freeland Bunker and made in Winter Harbor, Maine, this finely-crafted work suggests the visibility of the nearly 1 million Freemasons living in turn-of-the century America and the familiarity of others with their keystone symbols.
Bearing esoteric symbols like the lamb, blazing star and the 47th problem of Euclid, Milliken’s hand-embroidered piece is just one of 25 quilts, coverlets, rugs and needlework pictures exhibited in "Threads of Brotherhood’’ at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington
Read more: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1602170779/Symbols-of-Freemasonry-sewn-into-quilts-on-display-at-museum#ixzz255X4eCdC
Video of the quilt http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/multimedia/video/x521653601/VIDEO-Quilts-tell-a-story
LEXINGTON —
Instead of commonplace designs like flowers or snowflakes, seamstress Celestia A. Milliken decorated her colorful quilt in 1908 with the square and compass and 70 other secret symbols of Freemasonry.
Designed by a member named Freeland Bunker and made in Winter Harbor, Maine, this finely-crafted work suggests the visibility of the nearly 1 million Freemasons living in turn-of-the century America and the familiarity of others with their keystone symbols.
Bearing esoteric symbols like the lamb, blazing star and the 47th problem of Euclid, Milliken’s hand-embroidered piece is just one of 25 quilts, coverlets, rugs and needlework pictures exhibited in "Threads of Brotherhood’’ at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington
Read more: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1602170779/Symbols-of-Freemasonry-sewn-into-quilts-on-display-at-museum#ixzz255X4eCdC
Video of the quilt http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/multimedia/video/x521653601/VIDEO-Quilts-tell-a-story
