"Housetop"
Artist: Lola Pettway (American, born 1941)
Date: 2003
Dimensions:
75 1/2 × 65 3/4 in. (191.8 × 167 cm)
Medium: Denim and cotton
Place of Origin: Gee's Bend Quilting Community, Boykin, Alabama, United States
Classification: Textiles and Fiber
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Object number: 2021.23
DescriptionThe "Housetop" is an attitude, an approach toward form and construction. It begins with a medallion of solid cloth, or one of an endless number of pieced motifs, to anchor the quilt. After that, "Housetops" share the technique of joining rectangular strips of cloth so that the end of a strip's long side connects to one short side of a neighboring strip, eventually forming a kind of frame surrounding the central patch; increasingly larger frames or borders are added until a block is declared complete."
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