quilts

Look at those beautiful quilts!!!!!

This image has been featured on Indicommons.org as among the Best of the Commons.

Little did this lady realise I am sure, that her newspaper insulation, furniture and quilts would so perfectly frame her in history as a statement of her 'time'. A perfect sociological photo.

I remember being in the "cabin" on the edge of the "colored quarters" our small Louisiana town of our then housekeeper & babysitter, Mary & her husband George Jackson. (Mary was from Georgia, coudn't read/write) say around 1950, I was four. They had one large room, two beds with quilts, newspaper on walls just as in this photo. I remember going there at Christmas, we did every year with a box of groceries and gifts, it was cold and they had a wood burning iron stove in the middle of the room with a stovepipe up through the ceiling. I'll never forget that couple and their kind regard toward us.

amaizing how they made all the beautiful quilts that have survived to this day.....

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.

Quilt of State birds?

Photographer Russell Lee: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_(photographer)

She probably bought the blocks with the designs already stamped on them. Such kits were popular, even through the 1960s. I have a State Flowers quilt my grandmother made from a kit.

Nice bed quilt. I like the way the green and red sashing meets in a chequered arrangement between each block. Clearly not this lady's first quilt. Pity the sunlight is so bright that it obscures the detail of the bird blocks. Wonder if her family still has it?'Tis very possible.

This is truly amazing. A real work of art. Congratulations!