Harriet Powers Bible Quilt Pattern 1885 1886 Harriet Powers s Bible Quilt Harriet Powers an African American farm woman of Clarke County Georgia made this quilt in about 1886 She exhibited it at the Athens Cotton Fair of 1886 where it captured the imagination of Jennie Smith a young internationally trained local artist
The Bible quilt is both hand and machine stitched There is outline quilting around the motifs and random intersecting straight lines in open spaces A one inch border of straight grain printed cotton is folded over the edges and machine stitched through all layers Harriet Powers was born a slave near Athens Georgia on October 29 1837 Harriet Powers Harriet Powers October 29 1837 January 1 1910 1 was an American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia Powers used traditional appliqu techniques to make quilts that expressed local legends Bible stories and astronomical events
Harriet Powers Bible Quilt Pattern
Harriet Powers Bible Quilt Pattern
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1885 1886 Harriet Powers s Bible Quilt National Museum Of American History
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The Pictorial Quilt Of the two quilts created by Harriet Powers historians believe she created the Bible Quilt first The quilt presents tales ranging from Cain and Abel to the Last Supper Harriet Powers s second creation the Pictorial Quilt finds her going further creating a potent juxtaposition of biblical stories along with real life The exhibition brings together the only two surviving quilts by artist Harriet Powers displaying the MFA s iconic Pictorial quilt 1895 98 alongside the Bible quilt 1885 86 on loan from the Smithsonian s National Museum of
On display at the Smithsonian the world s largest museum is a quilt known as the Bible Quilt It was made by Harriet Powers an African American farm woman from Clarke County Georgia and first exhibited at the Athens Cotton Fair in 1886 An artistically created quilt it has been admired over the decades of its history The Bible quilt is both hand and machine stitched There is outline quilting around the motifs and random intersecting straight lines in open spaces A one inch border of straight grain printed cotton is folded over the edges and machine stitched through all layers Harriet Powers was born a slave near Athens Georgia on October 29 1837
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Harriet Powers an African American farm woman of Clarke County Georgia made this quilt in about 1886 She exhibited it at the Athens Cotton Fair of 1886 where it captured the imagination of Jennie Smith a young internationally trained local artist The Lord s Supper Pattern Book Imagining Harriet Powers Lost Bible Story Quilt Hicks Kyra E Mazloomi Carolyn L Whittaker Paek Elyse on Amazon FREE shipping on qualifying offers The Lord s Supper Pattern Book Imagining Harriet Powers Lost Bible Story Quilt
The first quilt was made of 299 separate pieces of fabric depicting scenes from Bible stories and spirituals The figures were colorful and stitched to a watermelon colored background Broken vertical strips divided the quilts into panels that told stories Powers could not read or write but the stories she heard came to life on her quilts Powers who was born in 1837 in Georgia is widely considered to be the progenitor of African American story quilt tradition admired for her expressive original designs depicting natural
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The Bible quilt is both hand and machine stitched There is outline quilting around the motifs and random intersecting straight lines in open spaces A one inch border of straight grain printed cotton is folded over the edges and machine stitched through all layers Harriet Powers was born a slave near Athens Georgia on October 29 1837
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