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How A Quilt Maker Became A Famous Artist

Imagine living in a tiny stone cottage on a windswept island. It’s freezing cold even through the short summer months. You have little money to spare and use it all only for necessities like the few clothes you and your family wear. Otherwise, you live off the land.

Nothing goes to waste because everything has value. When your clothes are too worn out to patch together again, you keep whatever scraps you can and make patchwork quilts out of them. The first quilt sets ever made were sewn by hand like this. The were items made from necessity.

A couple of thin pieces of material aren’t going to keep you or your family warm in the winter, but you notice that your geese and ducks are always warm. They fluff out their feathers and are insulated from the cold. You start to collect their feathers and fill your quilts with them. You separate the big feathers from the down and when you’ve got enough down, you make a quilt filled with down. That’s luxury!

You have plenty of time to kill through the long winter days and nights. With nothing else to divert your attention, you devote your time to making a special quilt and pillow cases from the best bits of cloth in your collection. You fill this quilt and those pillows with the best goose down you have. Instead of keeping them for your own use, you sell them in the local market.

On one random day at the market, a wealthy woman from town notices your handiwork. She is so impressed that she commissions you to make a down quilt for her. She will supply you with the cloth, because yours is far too coarse for her. You gratefully accept her offer.

While this may not be exactly the way the first luxury quilt set was sold, the story is probably not too far off the mark. Today, even though you can buy luxurious quilts in any department store, there is still a mystique about handmade quilts. In the United States, there is one quilt artist who learned her skills just as it is described above, in a tiny stone cottage in the remote Orkney Islands of Scotland.

Today, that woman lives on a larger farm in the Kentucky hills. She no longer makes patchwork quilts for her family. She makes works of art that hang in some of the best galleries in America. Her husband doesn’t have to cut firewood with a handsaw, but he still cuts his own, using husqvarna chainsaws. She and her large family still live modestly, even though she is a well known artist.

Is there a moral to this story? Maybe not, but it’s true. Sometimes, the most humble craft can evolve into high art.

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