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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
Detail of a square from a sampler quilt made by Margie Miller. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott
Created/Published
September 26, 1995
Notes
Event: Quilting Bee.
"Each Tuesday morning from September through May, a number of women on Drews Creek get together to quilt. Sometimes they quilt at the Ramp House, a community center at the head of Drews Creek across from the Delbert Free Will Baptist Church, to which most of the women belong. Many of the tops are pieced by the women on request, and they produce a number of quilts each year for sale at the annual Pine Knob Ramp Supper. As they quilt, the women catch up on news of the community, which often includes information about what's coming up in the gardens and in the woods.
Quilt patterns often represent elements built and natural environments in which women work (Hayden and Marris). Environmental elements assembled in this sampler quilt include "Country Lane," "Log Cabin," and "Hole in the Barn Door." And of course, the "Windmill Quilt" on which the women worked alludes to a traditional means of harnessing energy which once shaped the horizons for communities that produced and ground their own meal."
Subjects
Fall
September
Quilting
Sampler quilt
Community events
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Brown Hollow
Drews Creek
Object Type
Related Names
Depicted: Brown, Mabel
Depicted: Miller, Margie
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-LE-C004-04
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns lec00404
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec00404