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Left Booklet: Quilts: Patchwork, Appliqué, Quilting (Book No. 190) was published by the Spool Cotton Company. It is a 24-page staple-bound softcover guide that originally sold for 10 cents. You can view or study its traditional historical patterns online for free via the digital archives of the Antique Pattern Library. Right Booklet: 31 Quilt Designs was published circa 1945–1950 by the Taylor Bedding Manufacturing Co. out of Taylor, Texas. Priced at 25 cents, it features cutting charts and instructions designed to promote their signature "Layer-Bilt" cotton batting. It includes classic regional and state-fair-winning blocks like the Morning Glory pattern highlighted on its cover, the Lone Star, and Grandmother's Tulip.