AccuQuilt Gallery Exhibit Features Historical Appliqué Quilts
Omaha, NE (PRWEB) August 31, 2015 -- AccuQuilt welcomes a new exhibit, Red and Green: An American Quilt Icon, a powerful display of seven historical quilts featuring amazing English appliqué, vibrant Germanic folk art, and a plethora of American manufactured cotton fabrics. The exhibit will run through October 28.
These unique quilts were first discovered during the mid to late 1800s in the Mid-Atlantic states when millions of Europeans emigrated to the U.S. and migrated west. The few necessities they took with them were bundled inside their prized red and green appliqué quilts.
Red and green floral designs were popular in nineteenth-century American decorative arts, so this became the go-to color scheme for quilts. Further, it was only when fabrics were being manufactured in America did it become more affordable to the middle class. With colorful cotton fabrics readily available, middle class women started making appliqué quilts, an intricate style of quilting that quickly became common. Their impressive designs are now on display in many museums across the nation.
The Red & Green Exhibit is a small sampling of the nearly 200 red and green appliqué quilt collection at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE. The IQSCM is home to the largest publicly held quilt collection in the world.
"We love having such an extraordinary collection of appliqué quilts in our gallery, and not knowing who the makers of the quilts are makes them all the more interesting," said AccuQuilt CEO Steve Nabity.
You can view the Red & Green Exhibit at the AccuQuilt Gallery Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. by appointment.
About AccuQuilt—Better Cuts Make Better Quilts
Headquartered in Omaha, Neb., AccuQuilt offers quilters, fabric crafters and retailers a premiere line of fabric cutters, dies, quilting patterns and other quilt and fabric cutting solutions that help quilters quickly and accurately cut shapes for quilting and fabric crafts. AccuQuilt also offers quilters a wide variety of rich educational resources to enhance their quilting experiences. Cutting with AccuQuilt cutters is a natural evolution of fabric cutting methods. “First scissors…then rotary…finally…AccuQuilt” for fast, easy, accurate fabric cutting. For more information, visit accuquilt.com or call 888.258.7913.
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Lynette A. Griffin, AccuQuilt, http://www.accuquilt.com, +1 888.258.7913 Ext: 362, [email protected]
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