An Australian quilt sold in Melbourne for $70,000.00 - depends what people are willing to pay. You can read the article here:

http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8181169

Art Quilt. Whole different animal...

Yea but its PAINTED! If all the detail work was done with thread, and fabric, I would be in aww. IT IS PAINTED. and for that price, it had better be painted with real gold!

Check out the web site www.etsy.com. It is a forum for all kinds of hand made items. You will be amazed at the quilts and the prices. Of course, you never know how long some of the items have been listed and not sold.

I saw a quilter's blog where a gal had sold her quilt for $20,000, she didn't announce it until she had the money in the bank. It was an extraordinary work of art and I'm willing to bet it is hanging, framed, in a high end professional office building somewhere.

I have seen quilts of more talent on this board. I do not mean to say the one listed above, is in any way not a very nice quilt, but I can say there are many posted on this board that could sell for more-IMHO

that is too funny :lol:

I'd buy it if I had the money. It's beautiful and I imagine the work put into it was as much as a great painting.

This quilt is is North Wales PA!! Not UK!!!

I absolutely agree - and if you work out her hourly rate (there's a lot of hand work in there) she's probably on minimum wage or less. This is a piece of art and should be viewed as such. You can't compare it to an everyday bed quilt.

I spotted that too -and for the information of the original poster, Wales is NOT 'in' England but a separate country.

I dont like it. :roll:

I hope they get it. It is beautiful.

Me either and I don't even like that quilt. So I definitely wouldn't ever think of paying that kind of price for it.

You really stirred my imagination in this topic of Mandala Quilt.

So much so, in fact, I went on line to see if I could find anything about it. This is a portion of what I found:

Maṇḍala (मण्डल) is a Sanskrit word that means "circle". In the Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions, their sacred art often takes a mandala form. The basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the shape of a T.[1][2]

These mandalas, concentric diagrams, have spiritual and ritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism.[3][4] The term is of Hindu origin and appears in the Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, mandalas have been developed into sandpainting. They are also a key part of anuttarayoga tantra meditation practices.

This help me accept the price for this quilt, although I would never buy it in the first place and wouldn't pay the price if I did want to buy it.

Rettie V.Grama

[quote=Rettie V.Grama]You really stirred my imagination in this topic of Mandala Quilt.

So much so, in fact, I went on line to see if I could find anything about it. This is a portion of what I found:

Maṇḍala (मण्डल) is a Sanskrit word that means "circle". In the Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions, their sacred art often takes a mandala form. The basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the shape of a T.[1][2]

Fractals also enter into it. That's a whole new fascinating subject especially if you like math.

Whoa!

You must admit it is very striking!.

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Does your ???? refer to my comment that Wales is not in England?

I happen to work with a lady, my boss, who paid $15,500.00 for a hand made quilt at an auction. HAlf of which was donated to charity. The other half to the women who made it!
WOW!

This is very interesting information and I will appreciate curved piecing even more now. THis is awork of art and to view it as such is a good thing.

I guess you can charge whatever you want for a quilt. But until someone pays it........

I love the concept that a quilt can be small enough to cover the spy glass in your door or big enough to cover a 12 story building. They can be a placemat or a 3 thousand $ wall hanging. It's all art! I just want to add some info on the 15,500 quilt. You can see a picture of it in the December 2005 Quilting Newsletter magazine, page 11. I don't know if it is archived on line or not. It is a most beautiful work of art and should be seen. This is an interesting topic. Many ideas. Why, as women, aren't we supportive of the hard work, creativity and time we all know goes into the thing we are here for. I'm sad to say I think we don't give ourselves the appropriate credit we should. I also think we would have a different opinion if this was made by a man. He would be an artist. Women just make quilts. This is not what I beleive but seems to be a thought trend after reading some opinions on this subject.

Here here! :-D :-D :-D

Hi all...I'm the artist who created this art quilt. To clarify a couple of things, the $50 shipping cost includes insurance which I think is necessary given the uniqueness of the work. That may not have been clear in Bonanza (which I don't use any more) but it is stated in the item description in my Etsy shop (ChadQuilt). Also, while I used paint to embellish some areas, I created the mandala components using fabrics and thread. I often use art media to embellish my fabric works--for example, in the quilt I did of the Gettysburg Civil War battlefield (which is also in my Etsy shop), I used paint to alter or blend the area of Pickett's Charge. I subsequently created a digital modification of the Gettysburg quilt and had it reproduced as a cotton tapestry throw, which continues to be a well selling item.

Although several of my art quilts have sold for prices that some of you would consider very high for "small" quilts, I primarily create them to reproduce the images into different items--eg, wall prints, mousepads, note cards, tapestry throws. Since I can spend hundreds of hours creating an original design and then executing it on just 1 work, it makes sense to me to "clone" the image and use it for other products. I've recently created several Christmas stockings, all in original designs. I will use the images for other items.

I appreciate the spirited discussion that my "All Is One" work has prompted here.