300 Years of Red and White Quilts
03-27-2011, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by StitchinJoy
Originally Posted by snicktrain
As everyone else has said, incridible, beautiful, wonderfull, etc. They were all that and then some. Someone would have to make up more words for that show. And it was FREE????????? Unbelievable. That's incridible too. Such fun. Pack a sack lunch and make a total day of it. I wonder how long it took to set up. How long are they going to be there? Are they going to switch out the other 400 +- quilts. How long has she been quilting?? Did she quilt all of these herself or is she a collector also? She sure has good taste and talent! WOW
that's what the white-glove ladies have to say.
there are a number of new ones, machine pieced and hand quilted. a very few machine quilted that i was able to see. i don't know about what was up top.
i only saw three dates and those were worked in as part of the piecing ...1858, 1856 and 1853. none of the others that i saw were dated. many had places worn right through and many had holes due to the red dyes. it will be there until the 30th.
ADD: i only saw one that had a small pale flowered print on the back. the rest were all muslin. of course, the backs were mostly hidden by other quilts.
03-27-2011, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
this was at the 65th street armory in manhattan. the drill floor was given over to the show and it was so beautifully presented. the walls and ceiling were kept dark, black almost, to showcase the quilts. the columns of quilts had spotlights from above, as you can see, and the quilts hang three - four high. every quilt is backed by another quilt.
there are a total of 650 quilts, part of a collection of over 1,000 red and white quilts that belong to one woman.
the only other color was that little bit of yellow on the one quilt in close-up. we kept getting lost and couldn't remember what we saw and didn't see. i was sorry not to see the stitching on the high ones. they are all beautiful.. they'll be there until the 30th.
the embroidered one i showed was feedsacks. there were only a very few new ones, and fewer done by machine.
so far, it doesn't look like this show will travel. brought to us by the museum of american folk art.
there are a total of 650 quilts, part of a collection of over 1,000 red and white quilts that belong to one woman.
the only other color was that little bit of yellow on the one quilt in close-up. we kept getting lost and couldn't remember what we saw and didn't see. i was sorry not to see the stitching on the high ones. they are all beautiful.. they'll be there until the 30th.
the embroidered one i showed was feedsacks. there were only a very few new ones, and fewer done by machine.
so far, it doesn't look like this show will travel. brought to us by the museum of american folk art.
03-27-2011, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
there are a number of new ones, machine pieced and hand quilted. a very few machine quilted that i was able to see. i don't know about what was up top.
i only saw three dates and those were worked in as part of the piecing ...1858, 1856 and 1853. none of the others that i saw were dated. many had places worn right through and many had holes due to the red dyes. it will be there until the 30th.
ADD: i only saw one that had a small pale flowered print on the back. the rest were all muslin. of course, the backs were mostly hidden by other quilts.
Those small holes are often where the black or dark printed figures were on a red fabric. Those places often oxidize and rot due to the iron mordant used to make dark colored dyes, black or brown.
How wonderful that the red has survived so brilliantly!
03-27-2011, 03:55 PM
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Your photos are so much better than the online article I just read. The display is awesome. I can't imagine standing among the quilts. Makes you wonder about each quilt's story.
You are so sweet to share with us. Thank you.
You are so sweet to share with us. Thank you.
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