Family Garden
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Quilt Summary:
"Family Garden" by Lesley Riley was created using her collection of tintype photographs.
Category:
Featured Quilts
Style:
Art Quilts
Owned By:
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Name of Maker:
Lesley Riley
Name of Quilter:
Lesley Riley
Year Made:
2007
Awards:
Design Source:
Original Design
Techniques:
- - Ribbons & Trims
- - Unusual Materials
- Quilting
- - Domestic Machine
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Description:
Lesley made Family Garden for a friend of hers who was making a book. The book was on collections and Lesley had a collection of little gem tintypes, which are photographs "made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal, colloquially called 'tin'." So in each flower of the quilt, the flowers themselves are made of heated Lutradur, which is a spun-bond polyester stabilizer, Lesley placed a tintype and created an imaginary family out of the photographs.