Wedding Ring Variation Quilt199182 x 75 " (208.3 x 190.5 cm)Cotton, wool, syntheticsMuseum purchase made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, with matching funds from The Great American Quilt Festival 31991.13.50Backing whipstitched to top. Parallel line quilting.
152735744Lureca OutlandTextilesCopyright for this work is under review.BoligeeBoligeeUnited StatesAlabamaTextilesBoligeeAfrican AmericanTEXTILESLureca 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, 2010.19911991 1991 13 5 African AmericanTEXTILESLureca 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.