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Patch Art
How A Quilt Artist Transformed A Simple Craft Into An Art Form
Imagine that you are living on a small farm in a cold place. Life is hard and you have to make do with whatever is at hand in order to survive. You live off the land and your livestock. You use whatever money you earn from selling eggs or your labor for buying necessities like clothes and you wear the clothes until they wear out.
Nothing goes to waste because everything has value. When your clothes are too worn out to patch together again, you keep whatever scraps you can and make patchwork quilts out of them. The first quilt sets ever made were sewn by hand like this. The were items made from necessity.
Since the winters are bitterly cold, you need to create insulation in your quilts. You have noticed that your geese and your ducks fluff up their feathers when they are cold. You take a cue from them and save all the feathers and down for filling your quilts. After awhile, you've got a fluffy quilt that keeps you warm on even the coldest nights. Ah, luxury!
Because the winters are so long and cold, you occupy your time by making decorative quilts out of your best bits of cloth. When springtime comes, you take them to the outdoor market in the nearest town and try to sell them to make a little extra money.
On one random day at the market, a wealthy woman from town notices your handiwork. She is so impressed that she commissions you to make a down quilt for her. She will supply you with the cloth, because yours is far too coarse for her. You gratefully accept her offer.
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.
Now she lives on a large but still modest farm in the Kentucky hills. She still likes to make patchwork quilts for gifts, but she makes her living stitching together magnificent works of quilt art. These artworks can be found in some of the most prestigious homes and finest galleries in the United States. While she works, her husband is often outside cutting firewood. He uses husqvarna chainsaws instead of hand saws, but the lifestyle is very similar to what she had as a child.
What is the moral to this story? There may not be one, but it's interesting, isn't it, how a humble craft learned from necessity can be transformed into art.
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