Flower Garden, #1
Artist: Elizabeth Talford Scott (American, 1916 - 2011)
Date: 1989
Dimensions:
55 × 55 in. (139.7 × 139.7 cm)
Medium: Fabric, mixed media
Place of Origin: America
Classification: Textiles and Fiber
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 2021.34
DescriptionFlower Garden #1 is an oval polychrome trapunto (stuffed technique) crazy quilt, embellished with glass and plastic beads, embroidery floss, plastic and metal buttons, metal fittings, plastic fruit netting, and rocks. The quilt is made of various types of fabric in different patterns, weave structures/compositions (like velvet, corduroy, velour, knits, smocking) and fiber content. The piecing is stitched together using a large basting stitch, then the same areas are quilted with embroidery stitches. There are 11 (?) rocks attached by plastic fruit netting to the center area of the quilt that are further embellished with fabric, beading, and buttons. Both the visual motifs on individual fragments and the overall composition—a mass of colorful shapes “growing” like wildflowers—connect to the title’s reference to a garden.
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