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The largest collection of Baltimore Album quilts can be found at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore's historic Mt. Vernon neighborhood. There, over 10,750 textiles including the quilts, are preserved with other samplers and embroideries. [1] Dena Katzenberg, textile currator at the Baltimore Museum of Art, organized an exhibition of ...
Baltimore album quilts are variations on album quilts, which are collections of appliquéd blocks, each with a different design. These designs often feature floral patterns, but many other motifs are used as well. Baskets of flowers, wreaths, buildings, books, and birds are common motifs.
Though they learned both pieced work and applique, by the 1870s they had adapted applique techniques to create a uniquely Hawaiian mode of expression. The classic Hawaiian quilt design is a large, bold, curvilinear appliqué pattern that covers much of the surface of the quilt, with the symmetrical design cut from only one piece of fabric." [22]
In the 1970s, Dena Katzenberg joined the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) as the institution’s consulting textile curator. [2] Katzenberg organized numerous exhibitions during her tenure including the multi-disciplinary show “Blue Traditions” in 1973, “And Eagles Sweep Across the Sky,” which promoted Native American crafts in 1977, and “Patterns in a Revolution: French Printed ...
The Quilt Index is a searchable database for scholars, quilters and educators featuring over 50,000 quilts from documentation projects, museums, libraries, and private collections. [1]
Appliqué is ornamental needlework in which pieces or patches of fabric in different shapes and patterns are sewn or stuck onto a larger piece to form a picture or pattern. It is commonly used as decoration, especially on garments.
John Shearer/Getty Images Kelsea Ballerini’s next studio album, Patterns, will be released in the fall. “Let’s start unpacking,” Ballerini, 30, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, August 8 ...
Example of a medallion quilt with applique. Elizabeth Welsh. Medallion Quilt, c. 1830. Cotton. Brooklyn Museum. Medallion quilts are made around a center. The center was sometimes a solid piece of large-scale fabric like a toile or a Tree of Life, an appliqued motif or a large pieced star or other pieced pattern. The central area was surrounded ...