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Exhibition

Red, White, & Green All Over

TRADITIONS AND VARIATIONS OF 19TH-CENTURY RED & GREEN APPLIQUÉ QUILTS

Recurring Date Info:
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Time:
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery Room: 231
1650 North 35th Street
Home Economics Building
Lincoln NE 68583-0802
Additional Info: Free and open to the public Monday - Friday. Closed university holidays
Contact:
Holly Zemke, (919) 395-5991, holly.zemke@yahoo.com
“Red, White, & Green All Over: Traditions and Variations of 19th-Century Red & Green Appliqué” features the elegant genre of red and green appliqué quilts that American quilt makers made in large numbers between 1840 and 1880. Beyond their stunning visual qualities, red and green appliqué quilts will intrigue inquisitive visitors with their mathematical design symmetry and the ancient science that enabled Turkey red-dyed cotton fabric to retain its color for more than 150 years.

Exhibition activities include a gallery talk by the exhibition curator and graduate student, Holly Zemke, at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, and a free public lecture, “Part English, Part German, Fully American: Influences on Red & Green Appliqué Quilts,” by quilt scholar, author, and professor, Virginia Gunn on Dec. 6 at 2:00 p.m. A special event on Dec. 3, from 6:00-7:30 p.m., will offer a kid-friendly gallery tour, and red and green activities. This family-focused event will highlight how traditions were—and still can be—passed down through generations, shared across cultures, and borrowed from one craft for use in another.

The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery is on the second floor of the Home Economics Building on East Campus, on 35th Street north of East Campus Loop (map at http://go.unl.edu/j5v). Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday and by appointment. Admission is free. Guest parking is available near the building and metered stalls are located in the Nebraska East Union lot. For more information, call 402-472-2911 or visit http://textilegallery.unl.edu.

Image: Princess Feather variation, Circa 1860. Linda Giesler Carlson and Dr. John V. Carlson Collection, IQSCM#2009.044.0003

Additional Public Info:
Free and open to the public

http://cehs.unl.edu/textilegallery

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