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Harriet Powers was born a slave near Athens, Georgia, on October 29, 1837. She exhibited this quilt at the Athens Cotton Fair of 1886.

“I had never seen an original design, and never a living creature portrayed in patchwork, until the year 1886, when there was held in Athens, Georgia, a ‘Cotton-Fair,’… There was a large accumulation farm products-the largest potatoes, tallest cotton stalk, biggest water-melon! Best display of pickles and preserves made by exhibitor! Best display of seeds and all the attractions usual to such occasions, and in one corner there hung a quilt-which ‘captured my eye’… The scenes on the quilt were biblical and I was fascinated.”

-Jennie Smith, previous owner of quilt

Harriet Powers

Information and images courtesy of National History Museum.

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ca. 1916-17

ca. 1926-27

“Only if we plunge deep into ourselves and try to be completely true will we succeed in producing things of value, living things, and at the same time work on creating a new style that is appropriate to us. (…) Rules cannot be drawn up, not for form, and not for color”

-Sophie Taeuber-Arp, 1922

designed by a pupil in her textile class, undated

designed by a pupil in her textile class, undated

Courtesy of the The Fort Collins Museum & Discovery Science Center Blog