Orchid Wreath by Rose Good Kretsinger, 1929,
Emporia, Kansas, collection of the Helen F. Spencer Museum of Art.
I am crazy about iris in all their varieties so I adapted the Orchid Wreath into an Iris Wreath.
Ilyse Moore is working on a version on a black background.
Here's another interpetation of the Orchid Wreath using lilacs on the cover of Jennifer Chiaverini's book.
Here's the blog posting about her Antique Rose quilt.
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2009/12/rose-kretsinger-pattern.html
A Bibliography of Information about Rose Kretsinger
Carrie Hall and Rose Kretsinger, The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1935) Read her chapter on quilting for her ideas and designs.
Some online information:
http://www.pbs.org/americaquilts/century/time/emporia.html
http://www.quiltershalloffame.net/index_files/Page994.html
See her quilts at the Spencer Museum of Art (plus jewelry by her daughter and some of her influences)
http://collection.spencerart.ku.edu/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalSearch&module=collection&fulltext=kretsinger
Jonathan Gregory has studied her life extensively
Jonathan Gregory, "The Joy of Beauty: The Creative Life and Quilts of Rose Kretsinger," Uncoverings 2007 (Vol. 28) from the American Quilt Study Group. Click here to buy a copy of that issue.
http://www.americanquiltstudygroup.org/UCDetail.asp?ID=28
The International Quilt Study Center & Museum has posted a podcast of his lecture:
"An Aesthetic Life: the Story of Quiltmaker Rose Kretsinger." Presented March 6, 2009. View it by clicking here:
http://www.quiltstudy.org/connections/resources/podcasts_video.html
I have written about her in several publications
Kansas Quilts & Quilters by Jennie Chinn et al. Chapter by Barbara Brackman---
"Emporia 1925-1950: Reflections on a Community"
Quilters Hall of Fame, Editors Merikay Waldvogel & Rosalind Webster Perry. Chapter by Barbara Brackman---"Rose Kretsinger"
Flora Botanica: Quilts from the Spencer Museum of Art by Barbara Brackman, contains short essays on two of her quilts. Read more here:
https://www.pickledishstore.com/productDetail.php?PID=1090
Women of Design: Quilts in the Newspaper by Barbara Brackman, contains short chapter on her. Read more here:
https://www.pickledishstore.com/productDetail.php?PID=441
And read more about my book Making History with the Iris Wreath pattern by clicking here.
http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1212
Scroll way down to the bottom of the page and click on the Google book preview to read the first chapter on late 19th century quilts.
4 comments:
Thank you for this information. I have read some of these articles, now I have more to find. I hope someday to get to the Spencer Museum, and I hope at least some of her quilts are on display. I would really like to see the originals, up close.
I have seen Rose Kretsinger's work online before and it is beautiful. But I like your adaptation better than the original and now I need to get your Making History so I can have the pattern! I also prefer iris to orchids so I'm glad you made the change.
I love to learn about the quilts and the books about them. I always check on the library telus system. The libraries usually carry the history of quilt type books, so fun to peruse them.
Debbie
Barbara - Thanks for the info and glorious images. The Wild Iris is Tennessee's state flower. Now I will make sure to buy your book to get the wonderful pattern ;). Keep up the good work. Always informative and interesting.
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