This is the time of year that the harvest begins to come in. In far West Texas our landscape turns white as the cotton balls form among cotton fields as far as the eye can see. In other parts of the country grapes are harvested as this beautiful quilt reminds us. The Martha’s Vineyard pattern appeared on the batting wrapper for the Mountain Mist company beginning in 1931.

This Mexican Rose Quilt, referred to by the family as the Tulip and Vine, was donated to the Museum of Texas Tech University in 1953. It was gifted to the museum's founding director, Dr. William Curry Holden, by his mother, Grace Eleanor Davis Holden (1870-1951). Two years after her passing, he donated it to the museum.

Curators seldom have the space to open and view two quilts side by side in order to study and evaluate, let alone see them displayed next to each other on a gallery wall.

Licensing of Disney products around their movies began in 1929 when Mickey Mouse was first featured on a children’s writing tablet. It is thought that the merchandizing around the Disney movies kept the studio afloat during the Great Depression (1929-1939).

When Alice in Wonderland opened on July 28, 1951, Disney entered into an agreement with the Percy Kent Company to place their images on feed sack bags.