Here is an few shots of my new quilt rack. It is adapted form a Shaker Drying Rack that is housed in one of the Shaker communities in the North East. It is made out of Cherry wood and fits into a corner of the room and will display four quilts. It folds in half on it's hinges, and can be moved and put away. Those Shakers were an inventive bunch and combined utility with beauty into a pleasing blend of function and form. Hope you like it.
John
It is just like the one my dad made for me 50 years ago. We called it a clothes horse, used for drying laundry round the fire and for airing clothes after ironing. Some people used to call them a clothes maiden, just depends on what area we lived in. Love the quilts. Shirley
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They were probably a staple of the household utility items in the pre- electric past. The thing that the Shakers brought to the equation, was the proportional aspects and the details of fine joinery that they demanded in their everyday items of use. Even their most mundane things were built to a degree of perfection that was not common even in that day of hand craftsmanship. They thought of work as a form of worship and had a saying "Hands to work, Hearts to God". They used that as a guideline to everything they made.
John
I really like it, John. Great way to display your quilts and easy to rotate what you want to display.
otate what you want to display.
Very nice! Good work you!
It's just as beautiful as your other woodwork, John! :) I'd love to have something like that, but I'm afraid it would be pressed into service for more than four quilts at a time. ;)
Just beautiful! Done like this or even as a trifold to hold 6 quilts, it would make a very cool room divider!
G> Here is an few shots of my new quilt rack. It is adapted form a Shaker
How about if you lived in a loft and it was about 8' high and tri or quad fold? Now that would make for some interesting space configurations. My wife and I have often talked about moving to a Loft type of place with one large space and dividing it up for living options with movable wall units. This would make for some beautiful options; don't you think?
John
John
Oh my goodness!! That is very ingenious!! And I really like that dark quilt. Somehow I missed that one, although I'd seen the others. Gives me hope for the Seahawks (Seattle football team) quilt I have in the planning stages for DS #1. (I can't find a "light" that isn't floral, and he hates florals) Maybe it doesn't need a light, if a dark quilt can turn out like yours!!! Very lovely!!
That quilt is not one of mine. That was done by a local Amish lady here in Ohio. I have always liked the "Somber" colors that are sometimes used by the Amish. That one is hand quilted in lovely swirl patterns all over the black area. Whenever I come across a local Amish quilt I buy it. They are often bought up by retail gift shop owners from out of state but occasionally one does show up here. I think I paid $250-$300 a couple of years ago. Quite a deal considering it has a hand quilted top.
John
John, I love it, you need to market those. It takes up so much less room that the normal style quilt rack.
Jacquel>Here is an few shots of my new quilt rack. It is adapted form a Shaker
Jacqueline in Kentucky, USA
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I tend not to want to make 25 widjets at a time. I am a one off type of guy. I get bored doing multiple runs of the same thing. That is production work, and I leave that to those that like to do that. I have made things for sale, before I retired, but they were commissioned pieces and not multiple runs. Thanks for the thought though.
John
Oh, yeah! Living in a big space like that has been a dream of mine, also! Not too far from here there is an artists' community that has big open living spaces like that. The artists work where they live. Yep, I can definitely see using quilts as space dividers! More reason to make more quilts, don't paint the walls - just change out the quilt!, sound muffler/insulator having quilts for separating areas.
Ginger in CA
Marvelous! I love the Shaker style of furniture; it's simple and functional, and quite beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:55:19 -0500, John wrote (in article ):
I really like that one. Nice and practical. I wish you lived here John, so I could hire you to build quilt racks.
Maureen
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