Harriet Powers, Pictorial Quilt Flashcards
When did girls learn basic hand-sewing skills?
By age 4-5
Were quilts valued?
Yes, even being gifted as heirlooms
Whats an appliqué
a needlework technique in which one or more pieces of fabric are attached to a larger background fabric to create pictures or patterns
Why was quilting so popular?
To save scraps of fabric and not waste them.
In 1835, how many yards of cotton fabric was produced?
750,000
What was cotton fabric with small repeating patterns called?
Calico
What does Hannah Stockton Stile’s “Trade and Commerce Quilt” depict?
A tree of life with 11 boats
What did Faith Ringgold create as a genre in the 1980s?
“story quilts”
What does Ringgold refer to her quilts as?
“paintings” made “in the medium of quilting”
What did Gee’s Bend community of Alabama do?
Make a quilt that was toured and also placed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston TX
Where was Harriter Powers born?
Born and enslaved in Georgia in 1837
Who did Harriet marry?
Armstead Powers
How many children did Harriet and Armstead have?
At least 9
When did Harriet die?
The 1st of January 1910
How many story quilts did Harriet make?
2 story quilts: the Pictorial Quilt and the Bible Quilt
