Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement #pdf by Suzi Parron

Swallow Press | ISBN:0804011389 | File Type: PDF, 234 pages | File size: 20.Mb | Feb. 28th, 2012
Road Travel: The story of the American Quilt Trail featuring the colorf patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America is the story of one of the fastest growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi arron travels through twenty nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America s tourist and folk art map Through dozens of interviews with barn artists committee members and barn owners arron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement Donna Sue Groves Groves s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county wide project Today registered quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred driving trails With more than fifty fl color photographs arron documents a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon