In other ways, 21st-century Modern quiltmaking is quite different.

In this way, some old quilts can look incredibly new. Innovation and tradition-tweaking are how quilts have evolved decade after decade, century after century. Even in the Modern Age of the late 1800s and early 1900s, American quiltmakers employed bold colors, improvisational piecing, and quirky aesthetic approaches. In some ways, todayвЂ™s Modern quilts are nothing new. In some ways, the same is true today.Д¬ome explore what happens whenВ todayвЂ™s ModernВ andВ yesterdayвЂ™s ModernВ are brought together in ways that reveal quiltmaking synergies across the ages. More people could afford to make quilts, using fabrics, implements, and pattern inspirations previously unknown or unavailable. This Modern Age of quiltmaking (1870-1940) was defined by new tools, materials, techniques, visual references, and participants. American industry, commerce, and society were modernizing rapidly. The Modern Quilt Movement and its graphically sophisticated outcomes have become hallmarks of 21st-century quiltmaking.ДЎ50 years ago, quilts were undergoing a different transformation. In this effort, they sometimesВ employ bold colors, large areas of negative space, improvisational piecing, asymmetry, and unexpected visual juxtapositions to construct novel, fresh, Modern quilts. TodayвЂ™s quiltmakers are finding ways to reimagine what a quilt can look like.

West Gallery What happens when yesterdayвЂ™s Modern meets todayвЂ™s Modern?

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