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Wedding Ring Interpretation Quilt
Lureca Outland
Photographer unidentified
Wedding Ring Interpretation Quilt
Wedding Ring Interpretation Quilt
Lureca Outland
Photographer unidentified
Wedding Ring Interpretation Quilt Lureca Outland Photographer unidentified
Record Details

Wedding Ring Interpretation Quilt

Artist ((1904–2008))
Date1991
Place/RegionBoligee, Alabama, United States
MediumCotton, wool, and synthetics
Dimensions82 × 75"
Credit LineMuseum purchase made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, with matching funds from The Great American Quilt Festival 3
Accession number1991.13.5
CopyrightCopyright for this work is under review.
Description

Lureca Outland’s version of the well-known Double Wedding Ring pattern features straight lines and squared centers instead of the traditional circles. As a child, Outland quilted the tops her mother had pieced. When she was in her teens, her mother taught her to make quilts using worn-out clothing. As Outland recalled, “Those quilts were not fancy like they are now. We used to piece up strip quilts. My mother knew some pattern quilts.” After her own children were grown, Outland joined a senior-citizens quiltmaking group and began to make “fancy” quilts, including the examples shown here.

Elizabeth V. Warren, "Wedding Ring Interpretation Quilt," exhibition label for QUILTS: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. Elizabeth V. Warren, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2010.

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Frank and Miss Molly in the Poppyfield
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Helena K. Nessemann
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1991.9.14
Star Variation Quilt
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Leola Pettway
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1991.13.3
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Photographer unidentified
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1991.13.7
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1991.19.1
Everybody Quilt
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1991.19.2
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1991.19.3