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I love the internet! Within hours of launching the request for information, I received a stunning response  from quilt historian An Moonen, of The Netherlands.  An is the author of A History of Dutch Quilts, so her research has been comprehensive.

An writes that she has found what she terms 'patchwork printing' (so many names....) in the Netherlands from the 18th century, in the form of a fichu, or triangle cloth worn around the decolletage.  She also has two border prints as skirt or dress border on a white ground, with little bouquets.  She has generously given me permission to share the photographs here.  An went on to say that she did not find any printed patchwork pieces later, but points out that patchwork as a whole thrived there only briefly, between 1775 and 1860.