QUILT INDEX RECORD

52-152-535

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Quilt Alliance

Who documented this quilt?

Quilt Alliance; Inspired By

Quilt Alliance Inventory Number:

59

Quilt Title:

Study in Right Triangles

Width:

16 inches

Length:

16 inches

Time period:

2000-2025

Date:

June 1, 2014

Materials:

Cotton fabric and batting, puffy paint, machine sewn

Quiltmaker:

Muh, Esther

City:

Albany

State:

California

Artist's Statement:

I was drawn to the gallery on ¨Quilts and Mathematics in Education.¨ I remember using the pythagorean theorem over and over again in many of my math classes. So I was inspired to extend the use of the pythagorean theorem onto a quilt and in the process discovered that I can arrange 10 of the same 3:4:5 right triangles perfectly around the three different squares.

Inspiration quilt:
 

 

Haynes, Luke. Study in Squares [Ego of a Quilter] (3rd place, Ages 30 and Under). 2009. From Quilt Alliance, Crazy for Quilts.