Quilt Speak Raleigh North Carolina
Quilt Speak
We visited the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh North Carolina on March 3rd, 2020. In our opinion, it is one of the best history museums we have ever visited outside of Britain, and we’ve visited MANY! Spacious, easy to navigate, many exhibits and everything we saw was well documented. On the 3rd floor was an exhibit entitled Quilt Speak uncovering women’s voices through quilts, and it was an incredible historic quilt show. We were pressed for time, hubby wasn’t really interested, and the room was full of running school children touching quilts they shouldn’t have touched.
I snapped a few photos and wanted to share them with you, my wonderful readers and friends.
Rectangles of wool from suits and pants tied at the intersections. Probably very warm and heavy.
As you can see, this one’s pretty wonky, and they did love that colour called cheddar.
This was a “coverlet”, no batting. All the flowers, leaves and ferns were stuffed, a form of trapunto. There was a backlight to show the transparency, but I couldn’t hold the button and take the photo at the same time 🙁
This quilt was striking in its perfection.
These are the photos I was able to take. I found the display very inspiring, and it was well visited.
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Oh!!! Yvette… thank you so much for sharing these beautiful pictures of Quilts…along with the stories of each and everyone of them…. wish I was there!!!!!
Love looking at quilts . Thank you for sharing .
Thank you for letting me know that Henny, I appreciate it. Enjoy!
I enjoyed the creativity of the write ups as much as the quilts! Thank you for sharing, Yvette.
Thank you, Kathleen, your comment is greatly appreciated.
Yvette , how fortunate to see these wonderful creations made so long ago. I am certain many stitched by hand and the needlework stunning! Quilting a tie quilt myself and handling silk, I can appreciate the effort made in each one of the silk tie quilts. Stitching this fine fabric by hand must have been a huge challenge for these gals. I enjoyed reading about the history of each quilt and the person who created these masterpieces.
Thank you for taking the time to post!! Enjoy your vacation!! See you soon!
Heather
Oh Heather, they were so inspiring, I’m sure they were all stitched by hand, and that one with 11 stitches per inch was perfection. Sew glad you enjoyed the photos, see you soon.