Art
Bedcovers like this one were essential to staying warm and comfortable in unheated homes. Carolyn Ford pieced together scraps of fabric—some printed, some plain—and quilted them by hand, creating a functional blanket that would have been treasured for decades.
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Your fingers trace the small, even stitches that run across the surface in rows. Each seam holds scraps of cotton together: a printed piece next to a solid one, all secured with buttonhole and herringbone stitching that took hours, maybe days, to complete. This is the weight you'd pull up over yourself on a winter night.
Reflect
What object in your home do you use every day without thinking about the hands that made it?