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Jessie T. Pettway (1929–November 28, 2023) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. [1] [2]In 2006 her quilt Bars and string-pieced columns appeared on a US Postal service stamp as part of a series commemorating Gee's Bend quilters. [3]
Objects: USA (1969) was a groundbreaking exhibition [1] considered a watershed in the history of the American studio craft movement. [2] It "blurred lines between art and craft, artist and artisan". [3]
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Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.
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Dame Jessica Mary Rawson, DBE, FBA (born 20 January 1943) is an English art historian, curator and sinologist. She is also an academic administrator, specialising in Chinese art . After many years at the British Museum , she was Warden (head) of Merton College, Oxford , from 1994 until her retirement in 2010. [ 1 ]