Amish quilts had a heyday in the ’80s and ’90s. Their bold colors and graphic patterns worked well with contemporary interiors and evoked the rural Amish lifestyle that was portrayed so appealingly in Peter Weir’s thriller “Witness” and Sue Bender’s bestseller “Plain and Simple: A Woman’s Journey to the Amish.” In an age of increased [...]
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Thoroughly Modern Amish Quilts
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Also tagged Amish quilts, Modern quilts, quilts, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
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Friday Things Considered: The ARTful Edition
When we were young and broke it was a challenge to fill our empty walls with something more than inexpensive framed posters. We actually rented our first piece of original art through a rent-to-buy program at the Oakland Museum. That program has since been discontinued (though SFMOMA still runs one), but I’m grateful that it [...]
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