Interwoven at Hillwood Museum The title alone feels comforting, reassuring that what we do every day, with whom and with which materials, are all interrelated, interlaced, intertwined and ON VIEW NOW! It was a huge privilege to be intimately intertwined with Hillwood over the past year, conserving and preparing many of the textiles on display […]
Textiles on the Range
By Julia M Brennan American quilts are truly a local art form and very much alive. In the little Western Slope Colorado town of Palisade (population 2,700) which is famous for its peaches, I found a quilt maker who has been creating rag rugs and quilts for the last 50+ years. Even now with limited […]
Hidden Quilt History
The exterior of this quilt may look like any other, but there is something quite special going on under the surface here—it is two quilts in one (one quilt surrounding an even older quilt). We think the outer quilt was made between 1920-1940, when feed and flour sacks were commonly repurposed into dresses, towels, quilt […]
