Word: quilts
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Beardsley is the author of Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. His work catalogs the social, historical, and artistic significance of quilt-making in African-American culture—saying that quilts had devotional, artistic, and trade purposes...
...visual slide that elicited a reaction from the crowd was that of a simple green and white quilt entitled “Lazy Gal.” Made from corduroy, this quilt employed a style which Beardsley dubbed “improvised geometries...
...appeal of handmade clothes into an economic-redevelopment model with her Project Alabama line. Chanin is a former film stylist (she handled costumes) who while on hiatus in New York City needed an outfit for a party. That's when she deconstructed and refashioned a T shirt using the quilting stitching techniques that she learned growing up in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama. Individual style soon turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone in New York to hand render her designs...
...passes between owners in the antebellum South. It is framed, plausibly, if not very originally, as a story Sadie tells to her granddaughter Marianne Libre, while, in the grand tradition of Penelope, Scheherazade and, more recently, Winona Ryder’s Finn Dodd, they make a kind of memory quilt...
...minutes out of town and run by an exemplary new Totnes resident, Heather Nicholson?a practicing nutritional therapist and iridologist (someone who claims to be able to diagnose ailments by studying the iris). This "organic bed-and-breakfast" is housed in a beautifully converted barn, overlooking an undulating patchwork quilt of fields. Guest rooms are decorated in colors that represent "harmonious auras," while breakfasts are prepared according to your food tolerances. Needless to say, there isn't a cream tea in sight...