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How Quilts Evolved From Necessities To Art
Try to imagine what it’s like to grow up on a remote property in a cold climate. Every day is a struggle for survival. You can’t afford to waste a thing. What little money that comes in through your labors is spent on necessities like clothing for your family. You wear those clothes until they are almost completely worn out.
You know the value of your possessions and don’t let anything go to waste. Therefore, when your clothes wear out, you keep the remaining scraps and use them for making things like curtains and bed covers. The bed coverings made from those scraps are called quilts. The first quilt sets were laboriously hand sewn from small scraps of worn out clothes.
In order to make your quilts cozy and warm, you learn from your geese and ducks, who fluff their feathers to keep warm. You collect and save all the feathers and separate the coarse larger feathers from the fluffy white down. Little by little, you fill your quilt with them until it is filled with down and warm as toast. Oh, what a luxurious feeling!
Winters are long where you live and you have a lot of time on your hands, because you are indoors so much. To pass the time, you start making more decorative quilts from the brightest and best swatches of material you have. You fill these with your finest down. Because money is short, you take them to the market to sell.
One day a well-heeled woman notices one of your beautiful down quilts. She appreciates the craftsmanship, but doesn’t approve of the rough material you have used. She offers to pay you to make her a quilt using finer clothes. Of course you accept.
No one can say for sure who made the first luxury quilt set, but it’s a good bet its origin was something like that described above. Even though modern quilts are rarely hand-stitched, there is still a mystique about patchwork quilts. As a matter of fact, a famous quilt artist learned her craft by stitching together quilts in a tiny stone dwelling in her freezing Orkney island home.
Today, that woman lives on a larger farm in the Kentucky hills. She no longer makes patchwork quilts for her family. She makes works of art that hang in some of the best galleries in America. Her husband doesn’t have to cut firewood with a handsaw, but he still cuts his own, using husqvarna chainsaws. She and her large family still live modestly, even though she is a well known artist.
There may not be a profound moral to this true story, but it’s inspiring nonetheless. It goes to show how a humble craft of necessity can be elevated to the status of high art.
Handmade Glass Ornaments – Asheville Artist Jason Probstien
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