"Old-school quilts"

The url didn't work -got another link? Roberta in D

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I think that the "Old School" designation, is to differentiate those from the modern"Art Quilt" that has become popular since the 1980's. They are quite different, I think. Some of the art quilt stuff doesn't even involve much quilting. It uses gluing and other "Strange" attachment artifices. They are both grouped under the general classification of quilting, but I think that Art Quilting should be classified as Fabric or Fiber Art.I also think of "Old School" quilting as art; just one of a different kind. I will now crawl under one of my "Old School" Quilts to avoid the flying brickbats that sometimes result from such broad declarative statements.

John

John -- I think your differentiation makes a lot of sense! I make "old school quilts". I am always thrilled when someone asks whether a particular quilt was made by a grandmother or aunt and am able to tell them "I made that last year"! Or someone will ask when I made another quilt, and I say, "My great aunt made that in the 1940's"! (I always sign and date my quilts, of course, with embroidery worked into the front so it's almost hidden around an edge somewhere.)

Howdy!

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R/Sandy

Howdy!

What I picked out was the use of "are there any other kind?".

Contemporary quilts that are not "old-school" are not all "Art" quilts. This writer's experience of quilting, if (s)he has any experience, is short, isolated, or possibly just ignorant; a dose of research is a good thing for people who write for a large publication, esp. on a subject they don't know. Traditional, Contemporary, Alternative, Art, Concept -- there are other kinds of quilts than "old-school".

Cheers! R/Sandy

Of course, there are as many kinds of quilts as there are people who quilt, by definition. I was just addressing the old school appellation, in so far as it applies to piecework, of a block design. You probably can get into subcategories to an endless degree. But for general discussion purposes, such as by this author, the Old School, as opposed to Art Quilt are probably the most definitively distinct and yes, she/he probably was given the reporting assignment when there was nothing of note to keep her/him busy so as to justify the salary. It is sort of inside politics, these definitions, and yes, it would be nice if everybody could come to an agreement on just what type of quilt they were discussing. But even "experts" sometimes disagree, on a commonly understood subject. Crawling back under cover of the old school quilt.

John

Thanks! The raffle quilt was pretty. Did you see their show? Roberta in D

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