Sunday, 31 October 2010

American Museum, Claverton, Bath

Well the exhibition is over now, I think - Classic American Quilts.  Some amazing quilts and quilting ranging from crazy patchwork, to an intricate log cabin backed with half square triangles of a very small size and getting smaller in the middle.  Friendship quilts, padded work, amish, applique, hawaiian, a piece from Gees Bend.  We then scooted over to the house and went round very quickly to find the other quilts hanging in a corner room -hung on boards, covered in plastic (well it may not be but that's what it looks like; a bit like curtain samples  and very difficult to look at when there are as many people around as there were, half-term and all I suppose.  We didn't really have much time to do other than pop into the basement where there was some Indian beadwork on moccasins, (a lot of shoes!) and silver and turquoise jewellery.  Wish there had been more time but when you have to get back and the museum doesn't open until midday, you have to miss out an awful lot.  I was glad to have had the opportunity to go, though, and I think we've been very lucky to have two such brilliant exhibitions (the other being the one at the V&A) this year.

There was also an exhibition - Treasure and Terror  - which we weren't able to do justice to but I did make some notes and will look up online and see what I can find.....

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