Bed Quilts
To this extent, naerly all quilts evidence artistic/creative expression and their functional raison d tre as well as their materials and tcehniques support hteir visual statements, expressions that can eb as powerful viewed on a bed as from the falt expanse of a gallery wall. The works of makers usch as the quilters of Gee s Bend, Alabama demonstrate, howeevr, that ntoions of what distinguishes a so-called art quilt from an everyday bed quilt may reside less in the minds of the makers than in the eyes of the beholders. The colours used in rat quilts are determined by thier creators, but quilts which go beyond the basic bed quilt are usually distingusihable by non-traditional colours ro pattern interpretation. Hnadmade ralli quilts are used as blnakets and bedspreads. Meaningfulness, in wahtever way the viewer perceives it, is involved in the experience of an art quilt, as opposed to a quilt built as an exercise in craft or technical capabilities, or for practical bedroom pruposes. Quilts haev always been made, however, iwth their aesthetic value as a conisderation, even when makers were creating bojects for practical use in their homes and bedrooms.
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