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Twilight Time
Top By: Eddy, Ellen Anne
Period: 1976-1999
Date: 1993
Location Made: Chicago, Illinois (IL) USA
Contributor: Illinois State Museum
ID Number: 1998.23
Layout Format: Pictorial
Quilt Size: 48 x 69
Fabrics: Cotton, Hand-dyed
Colors: Green
Construction: Machine Piecing, Machine Applique, Embroidery, Thread painting with perle cotton, rayon, metallic, irridescent and nylon threads.
Quilting Techniques: Machine quilting
Purpose or Function: Art or personal expression, Artwork/wall hanging
Other Notes: Artist sees insects and other animals as metaphors for the human condition. Insects, like women's bodies, are full of beautiful differences. In this quilt, mantises and beetles, dragonflies and crickets dance to the rhythms of life in acceptance of their separate and lovely selves., See book: Thread Magic: The Enchanted World of Ellen Anne Eddy, 1997.
Inscription: Ellen Anne Eddy
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