Papercuts and Plenty – Volume Three of Baltimore Beauties and Beyond

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Papercuts and Plenty – Volume Three of Baltimore Beauties and Beyond C&T Publishing Uindbundet 208

ISBN 0-914881-96-5

En bog i studie af klassisk applikation, indeholder fotos af meget smukke eksempler på quilts. De medfølgende mønstre skulle gøre det let at komme i gang.

Ligeledes gives der en fin instruktion i, hvorledes papirklip kan overføres til stof, og quiltere, der har bedraget med arbejder til bogen, fortæller gennem en kort biografi om sig selv.

En dejlig bog, der helt sikkert kan give lyst til at gå i gang med denne type quilts.

Gerda Helene Jepsen. Boganmeldelse i Kludemagasinet 2/1997

Liselotte Kannik-Marquardsen tilføjer:

Denne bog er en af mange bøger, Elly Sienkiewicz har udgivet om Baltimore applikation, hun er så berømt, at hendes ældre bøger nu er meget dyre at anskaffe – endog brugt – så får du mulighed for at købe en – så tøv ikke med at gøre det!! Ifølge ES blev mange af quiltene syet og auktioneret bort af Odd Fellows for at skaffe penge til enker med børn. Mønstrene blev solgt på Odd Fellows møder – og man kunne måle mandens generøsitet på, om han blot købte blokke – eller om han også købte kanten til quilten. Baltimore blok-kene indeholder mang af Odd Fellow symbolerne.

uddrag af forfatterens forord:

Odd Fellows (like the ancient Greeks before them) symbolized nature’s bounty by an overflowing cornucopia, the horn of plenty. Often nits links were colored red, yellow and blue, the tri-colored links of Odd Fellowship’s ”Three-Linked fraternity.” Apples and straw-berries and acorns, black-eyed susans and roses are among Baltimore’s Album horn offerings. So widespread was the understanding of this symbol of plenty that after Civil War, the cornucopia came to stand for our national Thanksgiving.

It seems to me that the women Odd Fellows, the Rebekahs, had their own counterpart to the cornucopia in their basket motifs – so often shown, too, in red with touches of yellow and blue.

The blessings held by both basket and horn were meant to be shared as offerings of “Friendship, Love, and Truth”. For so their three-linked motto said. Slipping back into Au-gust’s Baltimore mood, thinking of each stitch’s bite and pull as homage to nature’s beauty and bounty cannot but lift our spirits. Cannot but recall midsummer’s sweet perfume of, say, a ripened peach. Joyful, cloth-stitched songs of August praise. Warmth enough to wrap those February days