It ~is~ a beautiful quilt :~D
Hair, have you ever visited the little Capital Museum?...its near the Capital Campus...I have not been there for a few years myself, but when our son was young we used to go over there quite a bit and see the exhibits...
Its a small museum, but they have a lot of nice exhibits..now, I have enjoyed making quilts over the years, and also enjoy reading about different types of quilts...one time at the museum, we were looking at an exhibit in the downstairs section, and I saw this quilt, which appeared to be made, totally out of yellow strips, of a fairly uniform size and varying colors of yellow...this quilt looked exactly like a quilt I had seen in a quilting book, which explained that back in the 'old days', women who quilted were always thrifty and used any materials which were available, especially for free...old worn out clothing was cut up for quilts, old feed sacks were cut up for quilts, and this quilt that I saw, if it was what I thought it to be, was a quilt made up of cigar bands...
Apparently when the gents bought cigars, each cigar had a band of yellow material, which appeared to be a type of satin, and the band was wrapped around the cigar...thrifty ladies, collected the yellow bands, and slowly(depending on how many cigars her men smoked), the ladies had enough of these yellow bands to sew together and they made what was called a 'cigar band' quilt....so there I was, looking at this exhibit, and wondering, if indeed, this quilt I was viewing was a 'cigar band' quilt...they are reputed to be quite rare, so I was wondering if I was privileged enough to be seeing this quilt...
So when we went into the 'tourist trap' upstairs, I asked the saleslady if she knew about the quilt, and she did...she assured me I was right, that was indeed a 'tobacco band' quilt...should you ever get the chance to visit that little museum, its worth the time to view it..dont know if the 'cigar band' quilt will still be there, but there are many other fine exhibits in this little museum...