This was a fun episode to research as I knew almost nothing about the Marseilles style of Quilting. It began with searching on Infoweb in America's Historical Newspapers from 1690-1876 and led me to Marseilles, France.
Please check out the International Quilt Study Center and Museum for the Marseilles:White Corded Quilting exhibit going on now through May 22, 2011.
http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/online_exhibitions/marseilles.html
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Example of Marseilles Quilting |
See the gorgeous detail even though the entire garment/quilt is white?
Want to read more about quilting podcasters? Cindy at Fluffy Sheep Quiting is interviewing them at
http://fluffysheepquilting.blogspot.com/p/interviews_05.html
Here is a photo of the "monster" quilt for my son. Seriously, it's in a ball on the bed right. Sigh.
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Open Windows/Monster quilt |
Flannel baby rag quilt and Bliss fabric burp cloths made for the baby shower I went to last weekend.
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Burp cloths & rag quilt
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Thanks for listening and visiting! Ciao~
Love the Marseilles quilting. Not something I can picture myself doing, but it is gorgeous. Someday I hope to do a wholecloth quilt, but I'm not so sure that I would do the trapunto.
ReplySo funny you went to the UNL website for information. Definitely spent 3 years in school there, and took an art class with one of the quilt professors :) (well, technically he was a textile professor, but his medium was quilting). The quilt center is ah-mazing!
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