Originally Posted by butterflywing

this was at the 65th street armory in manhattan. the drill floor was given over to the show and it was so beautifully presented. the walls and ceiling were kept dark, black almost, to showcase the quilts. the columns of quilts had spotlights from above, as you can see, and the quilts hang three - four high. every quilt is backed by another quilt.

there are a total of 650 quilts, part of a collection of over 1,000 red and white quilts that belong to one woman.

the only other color was that little bit of yellow on the one quilt in close-up. we kept getting lost and couldn't remember what we saw and didn't see. i was sorry not to see the stitching on the high ones. they are all beautiful.. they'll be there until the 30th.

the embroidered one i showed was feedsacks. there were only a very few new ones, and fewer done by machine.

so far, it doesn't look like this show will travel. brought to us by the museum of american folk art.