Textile Compositions

Anonymous Korean Maker
Wrapping Cloth
ca. 1950-60
patchwork silk
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Anonymous Japanese Maker
Bed Cover
19th century
resist-dyed cotton
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Anonymous Turkish Maker
Throw
19th century
embroidered silk-satin
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous American Maker
Crazy Quilt
ca. 1876
silk embroidered with silk
Denver Art Museum

Anonymous American Maker
Crazy Quilt
ca. 1900
silk and cotton
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Anonymous American Maker
Crib Quilt
ca. 1850-75
silk
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Pennsylvania Amish Maker
Nine-Patch Quilt in Diamonds
ca. 1930
cotton
Denver Art Museum

Anonymous American Maker
Rocky Road to Kansas Quilt
ca. 1875
cotton
Denver Art Museum

Anonymous American Maker
Quilt Block for Crazy Quilt
ca. 1884
silks embroidered with silk
Art Institute of Chicago

Anonymous American Maker
Handkerchief Holder
ca. 1910
embroidered cotton, silk ribbon, silk flowers
Philadelphia Museum of Art

James Koehler
Chief Blanket with Blocks
2002
wool and cotton
Denver Art Museum

Christina-Brown
Crazy Quilt
ca. 1890
silk and cotton with embroidery
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Johanna Sperinck
Sampler
1719
silk and linen (whitework)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Anonymous Canadian Maker
Appliquéd Quilt
ca. 1860-70
cotton
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Anonymous Canadian Maker
Crazy Quilt Sampler
19th century
cotton
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Emily Carr
Rug with Killer Whale
ca. 1929
hooked wool on burlap backing
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

from Cana

What can I tell you that you don't know

that will make you tremble again?

Forsythia

by the roadside, by

wet rocks, on the embankments

underplanted with hyacinths –

– Louise Glück (1996)