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Loretta Pettway Bennett. Loretta Pettway Bennett (born December 29, 1960) is an American artist. She is associated with the Freedom Quilting Bee, where her mother, Qunnie Pettway, worked, and with the Gee's Bend quiltmakers. [ 1][ 2][ 3] She is a prolific artist and culture-bearer, dedicated to propagating her community's traditions for future ...
Quilts of Gee's Bend
American. Known for. Artist. quilter. Notable work. Vine quilt, circa 1885. Susan McCord (October 7, 1829 – December 12, 1909) was an American quilter. She is best known for her innovative designs and exquisite craftsmanship. Thirteen of McCord's quilts are included in the permanent collection of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan .
A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber. Commonly three layers are used with a filler material. These layers traditionally include a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back combined using the techniques of quilting. This is the process of sewing on the face of ...
Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.
Hystercine Rankin (September 11, 1929 - February 10, 2010) [1] [2] was an African-American quilter from Mississippi. Several of her quilts are held in the permanent collections of the American Folk Art Museum, [3] the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, [4] and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
Folk art in the United States developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries after the Revolutionary War when settlers revived artistic traditions from their home countries. Folk art includes artworks created by and for a large majority of people. It is defined by artistic expressions in a practical medium that has a specific purpose or ...
Strawberry Thief