Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection

In this full length lecture, collector Gerald Roy discusses how quilt makers are free to use color for color's sake and not merely as decoration. Before quilts were hung in museums, American quilters used color in patterns, fabric choice, and threads to create works that could be considered Abstract Expressionism.
Learn more about the Quilts and Color exhibition: bit.ly/1bnj7Yl.

[@janisdavisjanis2573]

Hand quilters still exist. Recycled clothes are still used. Small groups get together online to encourage and inspire each other.

[@marieyates9402]

Even though I only saw this program years after it was filmed, l consider it of tremendous value to my knowledge of guilts and quilt making. I think some of the most interesting quilts being made today are by people shopping thrift shops and garage sales for clothing that can be repurposed into quilts.

[@mandanewiser]

Wonderful interesting lecture!!.. So knowledgeable ...informative ..and Mr. Roy is so easy to listen too!!.. Bless him for taking such an interest and carefully preserving this amazing history.. Its hard to believe looking at some of these quilts that they are as old as they are.. Amazing..

[@noillucs3392]

I have been through the Educational system in Britain and have done a degree etc. Many courses. They bored me senseless, God, how I every got any qualifications is beyond me. Yet if this man was doing a lecture I would be a professor by now. Thank you for the most interesting of lectures I have heard in a long time. Apart from the one I hear from a man taking about soil. Only because I was wanting to find out how I had an under active thyroid. You are an easy person to listen to.

[@debc8402]

This has been a wonderful learning for me thank you for sharing

[@SharonCampbellWhittington]

Very interesting. I enjoy learning from masters like you:)

[@missmix48]

Awesome study

[@robertawalsh2995]

If I were assuming anything, I would assume that a Civil War quilt in good condition meant that the soldier didn't get to use it for long, if at all.

[@robertawalsh2995]

A Civil War quilt in good condition doesn't tell us that the soldier survived the war. Maybe he didn't get to use it for long -- maybe he didn't get to use it at all.

[@debrakellerman7364]

What the heck

[@ovh992]

I think quilts took a long time to be considered art because they were made by women. Women's artistic expression was a hobby. Men's artistic expression is art.

[@JohnTaylorR-A-G]

Nope. That’s not it.