Southern Quilts A New View Author:Gail Andrews Trechsel, Bets Ramsey When curators Bets Ramsey and Gail Trechsel invited 28 southern artists to participate in an exhibition of studio quilts, they were looking for works inspired by traditional bed quilts but interpreted by the artists' own experiences and vision. The curators stipulated only that the pieces were to be layered and fastened together in some way.... more » There were no restrictions on materials.
Despite the diversity of techniques and themes, the works are threaded together by the artists' fascination with fabric and the endless uses it offers them.
Bets Ramsey's essay presents, along with Gail Trechsel's fascinating account of the 20th-century arts and crafts movement in the South, a short but solid history of southern quilting.« less