Renowned for their play of color and strong geometric pat- terns, their similarities to modern art have been noted ever since the 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York ...entitled Abstract Design in American Quilts.
I was walking along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a street flanked by low nineteenth-century red and yellow buildings. The street ends at the East River. You can stand at the intersection of Atlantic ...Avenue and Court Street and imagine running down the grassy hill—now covered by asphalt—to greet the ships docked at its base. Across the river, the silver towers of Manhattan crowd together, but the Brooklyn side is open and sunny. Near this intersection, there is a manhole that serves as an entrance to a brick-lined passageway—a defunct underground railroad that runs beneath Atlantic Avenue. This
Of Prayers LIA PURPURA
After Montaigne,
09/2015
Book Chapter
It was a quilt such as the kind I know to be in most U.S. hotel rooms—synthetic and scratchy on the underside where little pills gather from rubbing, and snags from rings (diamond, engagement, ...upright in that very impractical setting) make a constellation of lines. Time marks blankets and towels with thin spots, blinds with frayed slats, a toilet seat with a chip. Rust stains a sink, water marks a nightstand. Quilts of this kind withstand a lot—our antics and rest, much shaking and straightening, rough cleaning—all forms of the passage of time.
It was an early
Storytakers LaPier, Rosalyn R
Invisible Reality,
09/2017
Book Chapter
Grandma Gretchen was my grandfather’s aunt. Her Blackfeet name was Holds Together Woman. Aimsback, my grandfather’s father, married her two halfsisters, Calf Woman and Hollering in the Air Woman. It ...was common in those days to have more than one wife and to marry sisters. When Gretchen got older she helped take care of her sister’s grandchildren. My uncle Gilbert was one of her favorites. She kept special treats for him in her old cupboard. When he went over to her house he would walk straight to her cupboard and ask for the candy or sweets that he knew she
In 1959 the Stearns and Foster Company released a print advertisement for Mountain Mist, its commercial quilt batting.¹ While this in itself was not an unusual practice — Mountain Mist had been ...synonymous with quilting for a century and had helped standardize quilting patterns in the United States through the quilt patterns printed on its packaging paper — the occasion was unique.² The ad, in essence, commemorated and commercialized a historical moment: the admission of Hawai‘i as a state into the United States of America. Illustrated by a photograph of a bedroom interior and a bed on which a Hawaiian
Male quilters relish the challenges of quilting, which can range from mathematics, the effects of different color relationships, the use of non-traditional materials, and developing new methods to ...enter fields allied with quilting. Here, Jailer-Chamberlain features several men who have undergone the quilting challenges.
floral applique Hueston, Marie Proeller
Country living (New York, N.Y.),
05/2004, Volume:
27, Issue:
5
Magazine Article
Hueston looks into floral applique, one of the quilt world's most cherished favorites. Applique is a quilting technique in which snippets of fabric are sewn down on a solid background. Not only does ...applique allow quilters the greatest flexibility in manipulating both small shapes and overall compositions, it also presents them with a challenge.
