aunt sallie's quilt
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History of guilts featuring artist, Faith Ringgold.TRANSCRIPT
Featuring Aunt Sallie’s Quilt- Shepherdstown Historic Museum
Baltimore Style
BALTIMORE STYLE QUILTS!
Baltimore Style Add Title
• A quilt style that was popular in Baltimore, Maryland, in the mid-nineteenth century.
• Nearly all of these quilts are on a white/off-white background with the designs being mostly red and green.
• They were usually made by several different quilters, as a gift for a special person such as a bride!
2 Main Colors: Red and Green
CONSIDER SHAPE!
Baltimore quilts are very ORDERLY featuring a checkerboard design!
• The origin of Aunt Sallie is unknown. Some believe Aunt Sallie might have been a real person, while others speculate that Aunt Sallie might have been the name of a quilting bee group!
• Quilting bees began in the 19th century as a way for women to assemble and socialize!
WHO IS AUNT SALLIE?
SUNFLOWER QUILTING BEE AT ARLES
QUILTS INSPIRE ARTISTS!
Faith Ringgold
Picnic on the Grass
• Rag quilts- made from old clothes.• Passage quilts- made from the
clothing of some one who had passed to a new place either through birth or death.
FREE FORM QUILTS!
• Students will create a replica of Aunt Sallie’s quilt found in our own Historic Shepherdstown Museum!
• Student shall design their own square.• Students will honor the Baltimore style of Aunt
Sallie’s quilt by using RED and GREEN and one color of their choice.
• Students will master how to create a GRADATED VALUE in drawing while practicing how to control their tones while shading.
• In all other areas, the student must press down hard to create a “velvety” texture with their colored pencil.
ART LESSON
STEP 1: VALUE SCALE
Control your pencil, don’t let your pencil control you!
STEP 2: DESIGN A SQUARE!
• Quilts are a great way to teach symmetry!
• Quilts are a way to learn about geometric shapes!
• Quilts can teach you about fractions!• Other lesson extensions:
TANGRAMS!
QUILTS AND GEOMETRY!
VOILA! A BEAUTIFUL PAPER QUILT IS BORN!
Resource: 300 Paper- Pieced Quilt Blocks by Carol Doak