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- Title
From Enslavement to Entrepreneurship in Appalachian Virginia.
- Authors
WILSON, KATHLEEN CURTIS
- Abstract
There is no evidence that the red fabricplacement is a tribute to her African ancestry, but somequilt historians believe that red harkens back to Africantextile traditions.27 To construct each block in the Pineapple Variation quilt,Lizzie stitched fabric triangles to a foundation fabric,rotating the pieces around a center square to increasethe size. Despite its ragged and faded condition, Lizzie's choiceof fabrics may reveal a connection to her mother Annie'syears as seamstress. If large amounts ofinexpensive cotton fabrics, pieced together for thecotton quilt, were left over from clothing created forLizzie's family or friends, expensive fabrics in the silkquilt came from projects for affluent white clients whofilled the Warm Springs Hotel every summer, wearingelegant formal gowns for the evening's entertainment. Theuse of elegant silk and velvet fabrics for the front ofthe quilt and worn-out scraps pieced for the backing is afurther indication that Lizzie made these two quilts forher own pleasure.28 Some of the colored silks in Lizzie's Log Cabin quilt arelikely pieces left over from the annual social whirl atthe Warm Springs Hotel.
- Subjects
VIRGINIA; SOCIAL status; DAUGHTERS; HOME economics; QUILTING; SLAVERY; DECORATIVE arts; MOTHER-daughter relationship
- Publication
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2021, Vol 129, Issue 2, p156
- ISSN
0042-6636
- Publication type
Article