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.