Regency Fake is made from cheater fabric -- printed fabric that looks like a pieced quilt -- from Judie Rothermnel's Regency III collection from Marcus Fabrics in partnership with the New England Quilt Museum. In late 2006, Marcus Brothers Textiles produced the "Regency Collection," taken from fabrics in a circa 1820 nine-piece set of bed hangings paper-pieced in the Thousands of Triangles / Tents of Armageddon pattern.
When I bought this fabric (probably about 2009) , I volunteered one week a year at Constitution Village doing historical quilt talks. Although I did not finish this quilt soon enough to use in those demonstrations, I learned a lot about pattern matching. I carefully cut and matched strips to keep an uninterrupted pattern while making a quilt wide and long enough to be practical (it is a great sofa quilt). I found the tonally similar gray and brown toile at Hancock Fabrics and also carefully matched the pattern in the same way.
