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High Tech Tucks #5
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- Copyright 1986 Caryl Bryer Fallert
- 40" wide X 46" high (101 cm x 116 cm)
- 100% cotton fabric, hand dyed, machine pieced, pleated
and machine quilted
- Quilt National '87 cover quilt
- Marbaum Collection, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, California
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Design Concept
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This is the fifth in a series of quilts incorporating twisted,
constructed tucks into a pieced background. The background
is composed of rectangles hand dyed in a fourteen step gradation
between black and white. One side of each tuck is also made
from one of the shades of gray in this gradation. The other
side of the tacks are made from a nineteen shade gradation
from green to blue to purple to fuchsia. The tucks are constructed
separately and inserted into the seams of the background.
They are then twisted and stitched down with curving lines
of quilting, to give the illusion of movement over the surface
of the quilt.
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The subtitle"cold-wave" refers to a week of bitterly
cold weather which occurred in early November of 1986 while
I was working on this quilt. The undulation of the tucks
reminded me of the cold winds outside.
This was the first of my quilts to be accepted into the
biannual Quilt National show in Athens, Ohio. It was one
of the highlights of my early career as a professional quilt
artists, because a detail of the quilt was used on the cover
of the Quilt National catalog and the quilt was purchased
by Hillary and Marvin Fletcher, organizers of Quilt National,
and hung in their home for many years. The Fletchers' personal
collection has now become the Marbaum Collection.
After this quilt was finished, I went on to make more than
a hundred other quilts in the "tucks" collection
and still have a set of instructions and a workshop on CD-ROM
available for this technique through the Bryerpatch Studio
Internet Store.
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Exhibitions:
- Quilt National, 1987 and traveling
- Cream of the Cloth: Quilts from the Marbaum Collection
of Hillary & Marvin Fletcher, San Jose Museum of Quilts
and Textiles, 2010
- Texas Quilt Museum, Marbaum Collection, Autumn, 2015
Publications
- Fiber Expressions: The Contemporary Quilt, 1997 (Quilt
National Catalog) Cover & p. 49
- Quilters Newsletter Magazine, February, 1987
- Collecor’s Choice of Contemporary Quilts, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, 2017, Anita James (ed), p. 36
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