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Choosing carefully from her bag of scraps, McCord sewed thousands of very small fabric squares of varying colors together, resulting in a remarkably balanced, pleasing whole. Then she surrounded it with her unique vine border.","OtherSourceMat":"\"Fons and Porter Presents Quilts from The Henry Ford: 24 Vintage Quilts Celebrating American Quiltmaking.\" Urbandale, Iowa: Landauer Corporation, 2005.\r\n\r\nBrackman, Barbara, Shauna Christensen and Deb Rowden,\"Our Favorite Quiltmakers; Susan McCord: the unforgettable artistry of an Indiana Quilter.\" Lawrence, Kansas: Sunflower Pattern Cooperative, 2004. ","IdentPersonF006":["Quilt owner"],"SourceOtherF006a":"Museum representative","OwnershipF082":"Private- Nonprofit Organization","OwnerNameF082a":"The Henry Ford","OwnerAddressF083":"20900 Oakwood Blvd.","OwnerCityF084":"Dearborn","OwnerCountyF085":"Wayne","OwnerStateF086":"Michigan (MI)","OwnerZipF087":"48124","OwnerCountryF086b":["United States"],"OwnerPhoneF088":"313.982.6020","AcquiredF058":"Purchase","ReposFile":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6091/1E-3D-26E2.jpg"],"zoom":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6091/2011.221.1.c.jpg"],"Detail 1":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6091/TripleIrishChainwithVineBorderlabel.jpg"],"Detail 2":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6091/TripleIrish-corner.jpg"],"Detail 2 Caption":"Detail of Corner","AccessF080":"Restricted","CopyRestF080c":"The Henry Ford","verify":"yes","verifiedby":"Jeanine Head Miller","dateverified":"2013-07-12","dateverified_era":"CE","IfQmakerF007a":["Made entire quilt"],"Contributing Institutions":"MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University, Michigan State University Museum","Publisher":"Quilt Index","Resource Type":"StillImage","ImageTypeF076":"Color","photocredit079a1":"The Henry Ford","HolderF080a":"The Henry Ford","CreditLineF080b":"From the Collections of The Henry Ford","DistribRestF080d":"The Henry Ford","DisplayResF080e":"The Henry Ford","LicenseF080f":"The Henry Ford","Pattern":"TRIPLE IRISH CHAIN QUILT","Maker":"[\"MCCORD, SUSAN NOAKES\"]","Date":"1876-1900","legacy_kid":"1E-3D-26E2","project_id":"12","form_id":"8","owner":"1","created_at":"2020-04-25 18:24:42","updated_at":"2024-02-23 19:04:58"},"sort":["TRIPLE IRISH CHAIN QUILT"]},{"_index":"main_quilt_index_quilt_1_25_","_type":"_doc","_id":"NK1gWZEB8akQsUweia2w","_score":null,"_source":{"kid":"12-8-6305","InstProjNameF003a":"Michigan Quilt Project; The Henry Ford Collection","InstNameF003":["Michigan State University Museum"],"InstInvContrNumF004":"13.0165","InstInvContrNumF004a":"41.115.1","OwnerNameF010":"Tree of Life Chintz Applique Quilt","SubjQuiltF025":"Colonial Revival","AltNameF011":"Broderie Perse","DateDataF006b":"2013","RelnQuiltF007":["Quilt owner"],"IfQownerF007b":["Received as a gift"],"LocMadeF057a":"Ellenton","ProvCountyF057b":"Barnwell County","ProvStateF057d":"South Carolina (SC)","ProvCountryF057f":["United States"],"DateQuiltF023":"1876-1900","DateFinishF023b":"ca. 1900","OtherExDateF023d":"ca. 1900","PresUseF062":["Museum collection"],"TypeObjF008":"Finished quilt","OverallWidthF12a":"102 in","OverallLengthF012b":"103 in","ShapeEdgeF013":"Straight","ShapeCornersF013b":"Straight","PredomColorsF014":["Cream","Pink","Red"],"OverallColorF14b":["Two color"],"OverCondF015":"Good/moderate use","LayFormatF024":"Medallion or framed center","MedallionF031":"80 in x 80 in","NumBordersF033":"1","FiberTypesF035":["Cotton"],"FabricTypeF036":["Chintz","Other"],"FabPrintF037":["Floral","Solid/plain"],"ConstrucF038b":["Hand Applique"],"EmbellTechF038f":"No","FabFiberTypesF040":["Cotton"],"ColorBackingF040b":["Cream"],"DescBackF043":["Same fabric used throughout","Hand sewn","Solid/plain"],"MatUsedF044":["Cotton"],"FabStrucF045":["Plain weave"],"ConstrucBindF046":["Back turned to front","Hand sewn"],"WidthBindF047":"less than a half inch","MatUsedF048":"Cotton","BattLoftF048a":"Thin","QuiltTechF049":["Hand quilting"],"ThrTypeF049a":"Cotton","ThrColorF049b":"Cream","NumStitchedF050":"9 stitches per inch","NumStitchF051":"10 stitches per inch","WidthF051a":".75 - 1 in","KnotsF051b":"no","DesignF052a":["Double parallel lines","Grid/crosshatch","Grid square"],"DesignF052c":["Grid/crosshatch","Parallel lines"],"ExhibitListF067a":"Quilting Genius, 2004. Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI.","IdentPersonF006":["Quilt owner"],"SourceOtherF006a":"Musuem Representative","OwnershipF082":"Private- Nonprofit Organization","OwnerNameF082a":"The Henry Ford","OwnerAddressF083":"20900 Oakwood Blvd.","OwnerCityF084":"Dearborn","OwnerCountyF085":"Wayne","OwnerStateF086":"Michigan (MI)","OwnerZipF087":"48124","OwnerCountryF086b":["United States"],"OwnerPhoneF088":"313.982.6020","AcquiredF058":"Gift","ReposFile":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6305/41.115.1.Thb.jpg"],"zoom":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6305/41.115.1.jpg"],"Detail 1":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6305/41.115.1.c1.jpg"],"Detail 1 Caption":"Detail photo ","Detail 2":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6305/41.115.1.c2.jpg"],"Detail 2 Caption":"Deatil photo","AccessF080":"Restricted","CopyRestF080c":"The Henry Ford","verify":"yes","verifiedby":"A.M.Messer","dateverified":"2013-10-14","dateverified_era":"CE","Contributing Institutions":"MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University, Michigan State University Museum","Publisher":"Quilt Index","Resource Type":"StillImage","ImageTypeF076":"Color","photocredit079a1":"The Henry Ford","HolderF080a":"The Henry Ford","CreditLineF080b":"From the Collections of The Henry Ford","DistribRestF080d":"The Henry Ford","DisplayResF080e":"The Henry Ford","LicenseF080f":"The Henry Ford","Pattern":"TREE OF LIFE CHINTZ APPLIQUE QUILT","Date":"1876-1900","legacy_kid":"1E-3D-27BD","project_id":"12","form_id":"8","owner":"1","created_at":"2020-04-25 18:28:21","updated_at":"2024-02-23 19:04:59"},"sort":["TREE OF LIFE CHINTZ APPLIQUE QUILT"]},{"_index":"main_quilt_index_quilt_1_25_","_type":"_doc","_id":"xK1gWZEB8akQsUwelb38","_score":null,"_source":{"kid":"12-8-10548","InstProjNameF003a":"Michigan Quilt Project; The Henry Ford Collection; Black Diaspora Quilt History Project","InstNameF003":["Michigan State University Museum"],"InstInvContrNumF004a":"2021.151.1","essay":"Quiltmaker Thomas Knauer created \"Tea and Skittles\" in memory of Trayvon Martin and to help call attention to the systemic racism experienced by people of color. Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African American high school student, was tragically shot in February 2012 while returning home after buying snacks at a local convenience store in Sanford, Florida, by volunteer neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman. Martin's death heightened the debate over the persistence of racism and racial profiling in the United States. Tea and Skittles quilt. Designed, sewn, and machine-quilted by Thomas Knauer, Clinton, New York, 2016.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Trayvon Martin's death heightened a debate over the persistence of racism in the United States and in particular over the issue of racial profiling. Trayvon Benjamin Martin was born in Florida on February 5, 1995 to Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, who divorced four years later. Martin attended public schools in Florida, including the Dr. Michael M. Krop High School in Miami Gardens. His favorite\nsubject was math. Tall and athletically inclined, the often-quiet Martin was fascinated with airplanes and studying aviation. Yet he had also started to have problems at school, receiving suspensions at different times. In late February 2012, Martin spent his third high school suspension visiting his father and his father's fiancée, Brandy Green, at Green's home in a gated community, The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Florida. In response to a rash of robberies and burglaries, the residents of the community had established a neighborhood watch in September 2011. George Zimmerman, one of the residents, was selected as the program coordinator. He regularly patrolled the streets and was licensed to carry a firearm. From August 2011 to February 2012, Zimmerman had called police several times to state he had seen individuals whom he had deemed as suspicious. All of the reported figures were Black males. On the evening of February 26, 2012, Zimmerman saw Martin, who was walking home after purchasing Skittles and iced tea. From his SUV, Zimmerman called the police department at 7:11 p.m. to report a \"suspicious guy.\" Trayvon Martin, who had been walking between homes, then began to run when he noticed someone following him. The police dispatcher told Zimmerman not to get out of his car and follow\nMartin, with Zimmerman disregarding instructions and pursuing the teen. Martin and Zimmerman--whom it is believed never identified himself as part of a community watch--encountered each other in circumstances that have remained unclear and conflicted. The confrontation ended with Zimmerman shooting the unarmed teenager in the chest. Martin died less than a hundred yards from the door of the townhouse in which he was staying. When an officer arrived on the scene at 7:17 p.m., he found Martin dead and Zimmerman on the ground, bleeding from wounds to the head and face. The officer then took Zimmerman, who claimed he shot Martin in self-defense, into custody. Zimmerman was shortly released with no charges filed, because the police found no evidence to refute Zimmerman's claim of having acted in self-defense. The case quickly became a social media phenomenon and national story, with Zimmerman's critics alleging that racial bias may have motivated his actions. President Barack Obama called for the case to be investigated. He noted that Black men in the United States, including himself, commonly suffered racial profiling. In the following weeks the shooting, as Zimmerman remained uncharged, the shooting drew increasing attention. On March 12 the chief of the Sanford Police Department affirmed that no criminal charge could be filed against Zimmerman, mainly because of the absence of probable cause. A day later, however, a Sanford police investigator assigned to the case recommended that Zimmerman be charged with manslaughter, on the basis that the violent encounter between the two men could have been avoided. Zimmerman remained free, which was seen by many as an injustice, and demonstrations demanding his prosecution for murder were organized in cities across the United States. In April 2012 the governor of Florida, Rick Scott, appointed a special prosecutor for the case, who brought a criminal charge of second-degree murder against Zimmerman. The trial began more than a year later, on June 24, 2013, after the selection of an all-female jury. Zimmerman's trial received intensive media coverage. The prosecution argued that Martin's death resulted from Zimmerman's profiling of him as a criminal and trying to take the law into his own hands. The defense argued that the evidence corroborated Zimmerman's version of the event—namely, that he fired his weapon because Martin was attacking him and that he felt that his life was threatened. Central elements of the incident, however, could not be ascertained. For instance, witnesses disagreed on which of the two men could be heard screaming for help on a recorded call to emergency services. Although the original criminal charge brought against Zimmerman was second-degree murder, the judge also gave the jury the option of convicting him of the lesser charge of manslaughter. In order to find Zimmerman guilty of second-degree murder or manslaughter, the jury had to find not only that Zimmerman had caused Martin's death but also that he did not do so in self-defense. The issue of self-defense was linked to Florida's law permitting the use of deadly force to defend oneself against a perceived threat—known as a \"stand-your-ground\" law—which was central to debate over the shooting. Instructions to the jury referenced the law, but Zimmerman's lawyers ultimately did not invoke Zimmerman's rights under it, because, they argued,\nhe did not have the option to retreat anyway. On July 13, 2013, after more than 16 hours of deliberation, the jury declared Zimmerman not guilty. The verdict triggered mostly peaceful protests in several American cities. The day after the verdict was delivered, the NAACP posted a petition formally requesting the Justice Department to open a civil rights case against George Zimmerman. Within hours, 130,000 people had signed the petition. A nationwide poll conducted for The Washington Post and ABC News found sharp divisions along racial and political lines over the shooting and over the jury's verdict. Nearly 90% of African Americans called the shooting unjustified, compared to 33% of whites; and some 62% of Democrats disapproved of the verdict, compared to 20% of Republicans. A Pew Research Center poll also found large differences in reactions to the trial verdict according to age. The majority of Americans younger than 30 expressed dissatisfaction with the verdict (53% to 29%), while the reaction was reversed for those age 65 and older (50% satisfied versus 33% dissatisfied). During and following the trial, Facebook users started posting the phrase \"Black lives matter,\" which would inspire the Black Lives Matter movement, a decentralized political and social movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and all\nracially motivated violence against Blacks. During the three years following Trayvon Martin's death, the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigated Zimmerman on civil rights charges. In February 2015, the DOJ concluded there was not sufficient evidence that Zimmerman intentionally violated the civil rights of Martin, saying the Zimmerman case did not meet the \"high standard\" for a federal hate crime prosecution. No additional charges were filed.1
1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter ; https://www.britannica.com/event/shooting-of-Trayvon-Martin ; https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/trayvon-martin.","QuiltTitleF009":"Tea and Skittles","AddNotesF132":"Thomas Knauer (born October 3, 1972) spent his childhood years in a number of places, but considers the Detroit area (Bloomfield Hills) home since he spent his high school years there. Knauer earned a BA in Studio Arts from Kenyon College in 1994, an MFA in Sculpture\nfrom Ohio University in 1998, and an MFA in Print/Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002. Thomas Knauer was a professor of art and design at Drake University and the State University of New York before turning to quilting in 2010. Knauer has designed fabrics for several leading manufacturers, including six fabric collections for Andover Fabrics. His quilts have been exhibited in quilt shows and museums across the country, including the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and the Quilt Festival in Houston. His work focuses on issues of social justice and violence. Knauer is the author of Why We Quilt, as well as two previous books, including The Quilt Design Coloring Workbook.
Tea and Skittles was inspired not only by the senseless killing of Trayvon Martin, but also by the fact that people made Trayvon Martin shooting targets to profit off of his death. The idea of taking the image of a seventeen-year-old boy and making his death a rallying cry for stand your ground laws made me ill. Thus this quilt. In using applique to reproduce that shooting target onto a baby quilt I wanted to juxtapose the intimacy of the quilt format against the brutality of Trayvon's killing, in essence making his death an intimate reality. Further, the quilt is quilted with excerpted text from Trayvon's obituary, one in which his family showed remarkable grace in the face of their horrific loss. My goal for this piece is to draw together the intimate and the abhorrent into a single object, disallowing any breathing space for the viewer. I want the pain of Trayvon's murder to felt closely, and to be remembered in perpetuity.
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The quilts are pieced in a design-as-you-go improvisational style found among both blacks and whites in poorer, more isolated pockets of the rural South. \r\n\r\nMaking an improvisational quilt top required a continual stream of creativity during the entire process, as the quilter made hundreds of design decisions on the fly, fashioning an attractive whole out of whatever materials—including fabric scraps, feed sacks, and worn clothing—were at hand. Overall visual impact mattered most. Size and shape was determined by the scraps available at the time. \r\n\r\nThis type of creative recycling was more than a means of survival. For many rural quilters, it was also a matter of pride to be able to “make something pretty out of nothing.” Susana Hunter wanted all of her quilts to be different. Some designs have a warm, homey feel. Many resemble abstract art. Other quilts pulsate with the visual energy created by many small, irregular pieces of vividly-colored fabric sewn together. Still others incorporate flour or rice sacks, often reserved for quilt backing, as part of the design of the carefully pieced quilt top. \r\n","ExhibitListF067a":"Quilting Genius II: The Improvisational Quilts of Susana Allen Hunter, 2008. 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The Richburg family were farmers who owned a substantial number of acres in Crenshaw County, Alabama, some of which was sharecropped by others or rented to tenant farmers. Lovie and Daniel had twelve children: Marvin (born 1912), Edna (born about 1915), Cumi (born about 1916), Winfred (born about 1917), Clara (born about 1919), Havard (born 1921), Mary (born about 1922), Kline (born 1923), Doris (born about 1925), Raymond (born about 1928), Magdalene (born about 1930) and Willard (born 1931).\r\n\r\n","DateDataF006b":"2013","QuiltTopF054":"Richburg, Lovie Simmons","QuiltedByF055":"Richburg, Lovie Simmons","IfQownerF007b":["Purchased the quilt"],"LocMadeF057a":"Luverne","ProvCountyF057b":"Crenshaw County","ProvStateF057d":"Alabama (AL)","ProvCountryF057f":["United States"],"DateQuiltF023":"1976-1999","DateFinishF023b":"1978-1979","OtherExDateF023d":"1978-1979","ReasonsF060":["Gift or presentation"],"OtherF060a":"This quilt was made by Lovie Simmons Richburg as a gift for a grandson, Michael Richburg and his wife Theresa.","PresUseF062":["Museum collection"],"GenderF098":["Female"],"CityF106a":"Luverne","CountyF106":"Crenshaw County","StateF107":"Alabama (AL)","CountryF108":["United States"],"MaidenF097b":"Simmons","BirthDateF099":"03-04-1894","BirthplaceCityF098a":"Luverne","BirthplaceStateF098b":"Alabama","BirthplaceCountryF098d":"United States","DeathF100":"08-25-1994","EthnicF101":"African American ","EdBkgdF102":"6th Grade","OccupationF104":"Laundress","FatherNameF109":"Simmons, Samuel","BplaceF109a":"Alabama","MotherNameF111":"Simmons, Sarah Ann Carpenter","BplaceF111a":"Alabama","MarriageF099b":"1911","SpouseF113":"Richburg, Daniel Bishop","OccupationF115":"Farmer","NoChildF116":"12","NumQuiltsF123":"20-50 quilts","TypeObjF008":"Finished quilt","ShapeEdgeF013":"Straight","ShapeCornersF013b":"Straight","PredomColorsF014":["Green","White"],"OverallColorF14b":["Two color"],"OverCondF015":"Good/moderate use","LayFormatF024":"Block pattern","NumBlockF026":"49","SizeBlockF027":"12.25-13.75 in x 12.25-13.75 in","ArrangeBlockF028":"Straight","SpacingF029":["Side by side"],"BlockStyleF030a":["Squares"],"NumBlockPatF030":"1","FiberTypesF035":["Polyester"],"FabPrintF037":["Solid/plain"],"ConstrucF038":["Hand Piecing"],"FabFiberTypesF040":["Other"],"OtherFabF040a":"Polyester","ColorBackingF040b":["Cream"],"ConstrucBindF046":["Back turned to front"],"WidthBindF047":"half inch - one inch","BattLoftF048a":"Medium","QuiltTechF049":["Hand quilting"],"ThrColorF049b":"White","NumStitchedF050":"4 stitches per inch","DesignF052a":["Outline"],"DesignF052c":["None"],"IdentPersonF006":["Quilt owner"],"SourceOtherF006a":"Museum Repersentative","OwnershipF082":"Private- Nonprofit Organization","OwnerNameF082a":"The Henry Ford","OwnerAddressF083":"20900 Oakwood Blvd.","OwnerCityF084":"Dearborn","OwnerCountyF085":"Wayne","OwnerStateF086":"Michigan (MI)","OwnerZipF087":"48124","OwnerCountryF086b":["United States"],"OwnerPhoneF088":"313.982.6020","AcquiredF058":"Purchase","ReposFile":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6168/LSR.2007.62.8.Thn.jpg"],"zoom":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6168/LSR.2007.62.8.jpg"],"AccessF080":"Restricted","CopyRestF080c":"The Henry Ford","verify":"yes","verifiedby":"A.M.Messer","dateverified":"2013-09-13","dateverified_era":"CE","Contributing Institutions":"MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University, Michigan State University Museum","Publisher":"Quilt Index","Resource Type":"StillImage","photocredit079a1":"The Henry Ford","HolderF080a":"The Henry Ford","CreditLineF080b":"From the Collections of The Henry Ford","DistribRestF080d":"The Henry Ford","DisplayResF080e":"The Henry Ford","LicenseF080f":"The Henry Ford","Pattern":"STAR OF LEMOYNE QUILT","Maker":"[\"RICHBURG, LOVIE SIMMONS\"]","Date":"1976-1999","legacy_kid":"1E-3D-272F","project_id":"12","form_id":"8","owner":"1","created_at":"2020-04-25 18:25:52","updated_at":"2024-02-23 19:04:58"},"sort":["STAR OF LEMOYNE QUILT"]},{"_index":"main_quilt_index_quilt_1_25_","_type":"_doc","_id":"Na1gWZEB8akQsUweia2w","_score":null,"_source":{"kid":"12-8-6306","InstProjNameF003a":"Michigan Quilt Project; 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(The red border and backing were probably added to the pieced star at a later date.) Several sources provide documentation for dating these patrotic prints as from the Civil War era (and not the later Colonial Revival era as has been suggested by one quilt historian). The book HOMEFRONT & BATTLEFIELD by Madelyn Shaw and Lynne Zacek Bassett, 2012, (p. 43 and p. 73) includes images of textile fragments (of the same prints) in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: \"The Constitution Must Be Preserved\" (ca. 1860), and \"The Union Forever\" (1864). In this same book is shown a child's dress (1861-1865) made from the flag/soldier/cannon print, in the collections of the Western Reserve Historical Society. In Barbara Brackman's book, CLUES IN THE CALICO, she dates the fabric from the Civil War era as well. 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Pietrasanta, Italy. \r\n \r\nWells' quilts are held by a number of museums, including the International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Her quilts have been shown at a number of American museums, including the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. Her work has been exhibited in Japan and other Asian countries, and was included in a major exhibition of Alabama art in the summer of 2000 in the south of France. Wells was awarded the prestigious Alabama Arts Award and Visual Arts Craftsmen Award in 1998.","OtherSourceMat":"Three of her quilts have been issued as greeting cards by the Hallmark Card Company; one of her quilts was included in Workman Publishing Co.'s Folk Art Calendar in 1992.
MacDowell, Marsha; Worrall, Mary; Swanson, Lynne; Donaldson, Beth. Quilts and Human Rights. 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The background of the quilt top is an American Flag.\r\n\r\nThis quilt is the second version of three quilts (all slightly different in design) that the quiltmaker created around the theme of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.\r\n","ReposFile":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6178/2008.118.1.Thn.jpg"],"zoom":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6178/2008.118.1.jpg"],"Detail 1":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6178/2008.118.1.d1.jpg"],"Detail 1 Caption":"Quilt top close up","Detail 2":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6178/2008.118.1.d2.jpg"],"Detail 2 Caption":"Quilt top close up","Detail 3":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6178/2008.118.1.d3.jpg"],"Detail 3 Caption":"Quilt top close up","Detail 4":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6178/2008.118.1.d4.jpg"],"Detail 4 Caption":"Quilt top close up","AccessF080":"Restricted","CopyRestF080c":"The Henry Ford","verify":"yes","verifiedby":"A.M.Messer","dateverified":"2013-11-08","dateverified_era":"CE","Contributing Institutions":"MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University, Michigan State University Museum","Publisher":"Quilt Index","Resource Type":"StillImage","ImageTypeF076":"Color","photocredit079a1":"The Henry Ford","HolderF080a":"The Henry Ford","CreditLineF080b":"From the Collections of The Henry Ford","DistribRestF080d":"The Henry Ford","DisplayResF080e":"The Henry Ford","LicenseF080f":"The Henry Ford","Maker Associator":"36-50-12","Pattern":"ROSA PARKS II","Maker":"[\"WELLS, YVONNE\"]","Date":"2000-2025","legacy_kid":"1E-3D-273A","project_id":"12","form_id":"8","owner":"1","created_at":"2020-04-25 18:26:00","updated_at":"2024-07-11 15:20:53"},"sort":["ROSA PARKS II"]},{"_index":"main_quilt_index_quilt_1_25_","_type":"_doc","_id":"QK1gWZEB8akQsUweia2w","_score":null,"_source":{"kid":"12-8-6317","InstProjNameF003a":"Michigan Quilt Project; 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Especially during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, these professionally woven coverlets were frequently the best designed and most elaborately patterned textiles seen in the middle-class and rural homes of the Northeast. It seems natural, then, to suppose that these Jacquards would have inspired quiltmakers, who were making textiles of the same scale and function.\r\n42. Rising Sun (or Sunflower) with Eagle border, c. 1870-1880, probably Irontown, Michigan, 72 1/2 x 99 inches, pieced and appliqued cottons. \"Nancy Ganong\" is written in ink on a cloth tag sewn to the backing. 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McCord, like other thrifty housewives of the era, sewed her quilts from fabric she had on hand, mostly clothing scraps. Her everyday life was filled with household and farm chores; her “scraps” of leisure time were filled with masterful quilt making. \r\n\r\nSusan and her husband Green McCord farmed an eighty-acre farm in McCordsville, Indiana. Here Susan McCord kept house, brought up her children, sewed clothing for her family, knitted accessories, practiced homeopathic medicine, read her bible through each year, participated in sewing bees, gardened, took care of the cows and chickens--and found time to make at least thirteen extraordinary bed quilts. \r\n\r\nMcCord used traditional materials, techniques and patterns—but her considerable skill at manipulating fabric, color and design turned the traditional into something exceptional. McCord’s bed coverings stand as the extraordinary legacy of an otherwise little-known Indiana farmwife.\r\n","DateDataF006b":"2013","QuiltTopF054":"McCord, Susan Noakes","QuiltedByF055":"McCord, Susan Noakes","RelnQuiltF007":["Quilt owner"],"IfQownerF007b":["Received as a gift"],"LocMadeF057a":"McCordsville","ProvCountyF057b":"Hancock","ProvStateF057d":"Indiana (IN)","ProvCountryF057f":["United States"],"DateQuiltF023":"1876-1900","DateFinishF023b":"ca.1900","OtherExDateF023d":"ca. 1900","PresUseF062":["Museum collection"],"GenderF098":["Female"],"CityF106a":"McCordsville","CountyF106":"Hancock","StateF107":"Indiana (IN)","CountryF108":["United States"],"MaidenF097b":"Noakes","BirthDateF099":"10-07-1829","BirthplaceCityF098a":"Butler","BirthplaceStateF098b":"Ohio","BirthplaceCountryF098d":"United States","EnviroF104c":["Rural"],"DeathF100":"12-12-1909","RelAffF103":"Methodist","OccupationF104":"Farmwife","FatherNameF109":"Noakes, Amos","BplaceF109a":"Vermont","MotherNameF111":"Noakes, Mahala Weathers","BplaceF111a":"Indiana","MarriageF099b":"08-02-1849","SpouseF113":"McCord, Green","OccupationF115":"Farmer","NoChildF116":"7","NoFemF116a":"2","NoMaleF116b":"5","NumQuiltsF123":"5-20 quilts","TypeObjF008":"Finished quilt","OverallWidthF12a":"81.5 in","OverallLengthF012b":"72 in","ShapeEdgeF013":"Straight","ShapeCornersF013b":"Straight","PredomColorsF014":["Blue","Cream","Green","Purple","Red"],"QuiltSpecColorF014a":["Cadet Blue","Chrome Yellow","Double Pink","Indigo Blue"],"OverallColorF14b":["Multicolor"],"OverCondF015":"Good/moderate use","LayFormatF024":"Block pattern","NumBlockF026":"28","SizeBlockF027":"11 in x 11 in","ArrangeBlockF028":"On point or rotated on 45 degrees","SpacingF029":["Separated by plain sashing"],"SashWidthF032":"2.5 in","BlockStyleF030a":["Squares"],"NumBlockPatF030":"1","FiberTypesF035":["Cotton"],"FabricTypeF036":["Muslin"],"FabPrintF037":["Checked","Dotted","Floral","Geometric","Novelty","Plaid","Print","Solid/plain","Striped"],"ConstrucF038":["Hand Piecing"],"EmbellTechF038f":"No","FabFiberTypesF040":["Cotton"],"ColorBackingF040b":["Cream"],"NumPiecesF042":"2","WidthPiecesF042a":"54.75 in; 26.5 in","DescBackF043":["Hand sewn","Solid/plain"],"MatUsedF044":["Cotton"],"FabStrucF045":["Plain weave"],"ConstrucBindF046":["Separate binding applied"],"WidthBindF047":"less than a half inch","MatUsedF048":"Polyester","BattLoftF048a":"Medium (3/16?)","QuiltTechF049":["Hand quilting"],"ThrTypeF049a":"Cotton","ThrColorF049b":"White","NumStitchedF050":"6","NumStitchF051":"7","KnotsF051b":"no","DesignF052a":["Single parallel lines"],"DesignF052b":["Cables"],"DesignF052d":"Pumpkin seed in background.","FeaturesF053":"Susan McCord pieced this Pine Tree pattern quilt top, but never finished it. Her descendants later had it quilted so that this bedcovering could be used. It is one of McCord’s later quilts, and includes many turn-of-the-twentieth century fabric scraps. A close look reveals some fabrics seen in other McCord quilts. Purple calico sashing sets off the scrappy pine trees nicely.","RelItemsF088a":"\"Fons and Porter Presents Quilts from The Henry Ford: 24 Vintage Quilts Celebrating American Quiltmaking.\" Urbandale, Iowa: Landauer Corporation, 2005.","OtherSourceMat":"\"Fons and Porter Presents Quilts from The Henry Ford: 24 Vintage Quilts Celebrating American Quiltmaking.\" Urbandale, Iowa: Landauer Corporation, 2005.\r\n\r\nBrackman, Barbara, Shauna Christensen and Deb Rowden,\"Our Favorite Quiltmakers; Susan McCord: the unforgettable artistry of an Indiana Quilter.\" Lawrence, Kansas: Sunflower Pattern Cooperative, 2004. ","IdentPersonF006":["Quilt owner"],"SourceOtherF006a":"Museum representative","OwnershipF082":"Private- Nonprofit Organization","OwnerNameF082a":"The Henry Ford","OwnerAddressF083":"20900 Oakwood Blvd.","OwnerCityF084":"Dearborn","OwnerCountyF085":"Wayne","OwnerStateF086":"Michigan (MI)","OwnerZipF087":"48124","OwnerCountryF086b":["United States"],"OwnerPhoneF088":"313.982.6020","AcquiredF058":"Gift","ReposFile":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6090/1E-3D-26E1.JPG"],"zoom":["https://kora.quiltindex.org/files/12-8-6090/PineTreePattern.jpg"],"AccessF080":"Restricted","CopyRestF080c":"The Henry Ford","verify":"yes","verifiedby":"Jeanine Head Miller","dateverified":"2013-07-12","dateverified_era":"CE","IfQmakerF007a":["Made entire quilt top"],"Contributing Institutions":"MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University, Michigan State University Museum","Publisher":"Quilt Index","Resource Type":"StillImage","ImageTypeF076":"Color","photocredit079a1":"The Henry Ford","HolderF080a":"The Henry Ford","CreditLineF080b":"From the Collections of The Henry Ford","DistribRestF080d":"The Henry Ford","DisplayResF080e":"The Henry Ford","LicenseF080f":"The Henry Ford","Pattern":"PINE TREE PATTERN QUILT","Maker":"[\"MCCORD, SUSAN NOAKES\"]","Date":"1876-1900","legacy_kid":"1E-3D-26E1","project_id":"12","form_id":"8","owner":"1","created_at":"2020-04-25 18:24:41","updated_at":"2024-02-23 19:04:58"},"sort":["PINE TREE PATTERN QUILT"]},{"_index":"main_quilt_index_quilt_1_25_","_type":"_doc","_id":"ha1gWZEB8akQsUweiayw","_score":null,"_source":{"kid":"12-8-6129","InstProjNameF003a":"Michigan Quilt Project; The Henry Ford Collection; Black Diaspora Quilt History Project","InstNameF003":["Michigan State University Museum"],"InstInvContrNumF004":"13.0103","InstInvContrNumF004a":"2006.79.25","OwnerNameF010":"Pig Pen Quilt","SubjQuiltF025":"Improvisational","AltNameF011":"House Top ","AddNotesF132":"For Susana Hunter (1912-2005) and her husband Julius, life in the Jim Crow South meant hard work and few resources. The Hunters were tenant farmers who grew cotton and corn, tended a vegetable garden, and raised hogs, chicken and cattle. They lived in a simple, two-room house that had no running water, electricity or central heat. The outside world came to them through a battery-powered radio and a wind-up phonograph. Though the Hunters didn’t have much in the way of material goods or the latest 20th century technology, they never went hungry, raising much of their own food. And, in a place where people had to walk most everywhere they wanted to go and where nobody had telephones, close personal ties to family and community enriched the Hunter family’s lives. Quilter Susana Hunter turned the “fabric” of everyday life into eye-catching quilts with an abstract, asymmetrical and often modern feel. Represented in the fabrics that make up Susana Hunter’s quilts are work clothes worn from the family’s toil in the fields, sacks from the cotton seed they planted each spring, scraps from the clothes Susana sewed for her family, and bulk sugar sacks from the food staples the Hunters bought at the local general store. Susana’s quilts warmed her family during chilly Alabama winters in the inadequately heated home. They added splashes of color to the unadorned living space—a cheerful kaleidoscope of vivid pattern and design against newspaper-covered walls. Susana very rarely bought new fabric for her quilts; she used what was at hand. Yet the lack of materials didn’t restrict this resourceful quilter’s creativity. Susana Hunter could cast her artistic eye over her pile of worn clothing, dress scraps, and left-over feed and fertilizer sacks—and envision her next quilt. 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The quilts are pieced in a design-as-you-go improvisational style found among both blacks and whites in poorer, more isolated pockets of the rural South. Making an improvisational quilt top required a continual stream of creativity during the entire process, as the quilter made hundreds of design decisions on the fly, fashioning an attractive whole out of whatever materials—including fabric scraps, feed sacks, and worn clothing—were at hand. Overall visual impact mattered most. Size and shape was determined by the scraps available at the time. This type of creative recycling was more than a means of survival. For many rural quilters, it was also a matter of pride to be able to “make something pretty out of nothing.” Susana Hunter wanted all of her quilts to be different. Some designs have a warm, homey feel. Many resemble abstract art. Other quilts pulsate with the visual energy created by many small, irregular pieces of vividly-colored fabric sewn together. 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The Hunters were tenant farmers who grew cotton and corn, tended a vegetable garden, and raised hogs, chicken and cattle. They lived in a simple, two-room house that had no running water, electricity or central heat. The outside world came to them through a battery-powered radio and a wind-up phonograph. Though the Hunters didn’t have much in the way of material goods or the latest 20th century technology, they never went hungry, raising much of their own food. And, in a place where people had to walk most everywhere they wanted to go and where nobody had telephones, close personal ties to family and community enriched the Hunter family’s lives. Quilter Susana Hunter turned the “fabric” of everyday life into eye-catching quilts with an abstract, asymmetrical and often modern feel. Represented in the fabrics that make up Susana Hunter’s quilts are work clothes worn from the family’s toil in the fields, sacks from the cotton seed they planted each spring, scraps from the clothes Susana sewed for her family, and bulk sugar sacks from the food staples the Hunters bought at the local general store. Susana’s quilts warmed her family during chilly Alabama winters in the inadequately heated home. They added splashes of color to the unadorned living space—a cheerful kaleidoscope of vivid pattern and design against newspaper-covered walls. Susana very rarely bought new fabric for her quilts; she used what was at hand. Yet the lack of materials didn’t restrict this resourceful quilter’s creativity. Susana Hunter could cast her artistic eye over her pile of worn clothing, dress scraps, and left-over feed and fertilizer sacks—and envision her next quilt. 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The quilts are pieced in a design-as-you-go improvisational style found among both blacks and whites in poorer, more isolated pockets of the rural South. Making an improvisational quilt top required a continual stream of creativity during the entire process, as the quilter made hundreds of design decisions on the fly, fashioning an attractive whole out of whatever materials—including fabric scraps, feed sacks, and worn clothing—were at hand. Overall visual impact mattered most. Size and shape was determined by the scraps available at the time. This type of creative recycling was more than a means of survival. For many rural quilters, it was also a matter of pride to be able to “make something pretty out of nothing.” Susana Hunter wanted all of her quilts to be different. Some designs have a warm, homey feel. Many resemble abstract art. Other quilts pulsate with the visual energy created by many small, irregular pieces of vividly-colored fabric sewn together. 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