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Street Artist, SETH, Paints Stamp

Here’s a story I missed last year but was thrilled to come across, nonetheless!  It’s a wonderful mural by the street artist and self-described “globe painter,” SETH (who’s Instagram page is worth a look). 

The composition makes for a stylized monument that pays homage to Tahiti’s cultural quilt past and a new postage stamp too. 

A new postal stamp in French Polynesia highlights a mural at the “ONO’U” festival in Tahiti, a first for the multi-island country as well as the French Street Artist SETH and his local Tahitian collaborator, HTJ.

...The 6-story painting depicts a sleeping French Polynesian girl wrapped in a traditional pareo dress that also morphs into the traditional bed covering called a tifaifai. 

Read the full article published at Brooklyn Street Art, here.

HTJ assists SETH with the mural’s background motif. ONO’U Street Art and Graffiti Festival. Tahiti, French Polynesia. 2015. (photo © Martha Cooper)

SETH. ONO’U Street Art and Graffiti Festival. Tahiti, French Polynesia. 2015. (photo © Martha Cooper)

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Great new music by the band QUILT.

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ideas emerge.

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Baltimore Album, Wedding Quilt

Made for my BFF’s wedding.

Amy Butler fabric packs. 22 women represented.

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For Baby Elaine

 For baby Elaine.

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WIRED Mag

Caption reads: Getting Crafty: Why Coders Should Try Quilting and Origami. BY SARAH MITROFF0

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For Shepherd

Cowboy prints, w/ some help from Dad and big sis getting the quilt rack set up.

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For Tilli

Made for my daughter for her second birthday. 24 hours, no pins, old clothes.

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Spoonflower Fabric Design Contests

The print-on-demand fabric company is hosting themed contests for best in fabric design, check them out here. My thanks to Spoonflower for permission to post samples here.

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Great paper on the subject. Profiles 9 artists, speaks to general modern quilt history.

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Featured Artist: Denise Burge

These pieces are big. As large as 9x6ft in some cases.

Denise Burge, Machinations, Tug Fork Breakdown, Devil Fishing, and the artist herself.

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Quilts in/& Sculpture

Origami folds, flying optical dis-illusion, bed covering book-making. 

Land of Happy Sleepy (Magda Wojtyra & Marc Ngui). You can see more images of it on a blog post @ City of Craft.

 Cast on Cast off on Flickr.

By Brooklyn-based artist 

Amanda Browder.

Chromatic Hi-Five, is made from community donated and locally-sourced recycled fabric:

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The Cyclical Popularity of Quilts in Fashion

Popular interest in quilts is cyclical. Evidence of the celestial tide is often evident in the use of quilted materials in fashion. When pieced and quilted materials make their way on to wracks and runways they bring with them a linguistic/expressive (visual literacy) element that designers leverage intentionally.  Here are a few fun frocks, old and new. 

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The Line That Caught My Eye: 'The Veins of the Quilt'

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The room is quilted; the soft walls wear the purple well. The illusion of endless warmth emanates from textured walls. Her bare feet pass through piles of colorful fabric on a hardwood floor, mounds of each day's remains that bled out at night when the streetlights aligned perfectly before her desk at 5 in the morning. She will fold it all back into her walls hours later, after she mourns the moon as it retreats behind her pretty quilted walls while she keeps up at dusk, bending the final moonlight with the needle, pushing it in and out of the veins of the quilt Kieran Kieckhefer

From Rune, 24

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The Calico Jungle, by Dahlov Ipcar

The Calico Jungle is a children's book, published in 1965, about a boy and the magic quilt his mother makes him.  And before I go any further - I should credit Barbara Brackman and her terrific blog, Material Culture (which I've been reading for years), for turning me on to this.

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Out of the Attic: Quilting for the 'Pinterest' Generation

Link to the recap of Quiltcon and listen at KUT.org, here.