Aunt Sallie's Quilt

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Featuring Aunt Sallie’s Quilt- Shepherdstown Historic Museum Baltimore Style BALTIMORE STYLE QUILTS!

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History of guilts featuring artist, Faith Ringgold.

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Featuring Aunt Sallie’s Quilt- Shepherdstown Historic Museum

Baltimore Style

BALTIMORE STYLE QUILTS!

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Baltimore Style Add Title

• A quilt style that was popular in Baltimore, Maryland, in the mid-nineteenth century.

• Nearly all of these quilts are on a white/off-white background with the designs being mostly red and green.

• They were usually made by several different quilters, as a gift for a special person such as a bride!

2 Main Colors: Red and Green

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CONSIDER SHAPE!

Baltimore quilts are very ORDERLY featuring a checkerboard design!

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• The origin of Aunt Sallie is unknown. Some believe Aunt Sallie might have been a real person, while others speculate that Aunt Sallie might have been the name of a quilting bee group!

• Quilting bees began in the 19th century as a way for women to assemble and socialize!

WHO IS AUNT SALLIE?

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SUNFLOWER QUILTING BEE AT ARLES

QUILTS INSPIRE ARTISTS!

Faith Ringgold

Picnic on the Grass

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• Rag quilts- made from old clothes.• Passage quilts- made from the

clothing of some one who had passed to a new place either through birth or death.

FREE FORM QUILTS!

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• Students will create a replica of Aunt Sallie’s quilt found in our own Historic Shepherdstown Museum!

• Student shall design their own square.• Students will honor the Baltimore style of Aunt

Sallie’s quilt by using RED and GREEN and one color of their choice.

• Students will master how to create a GRADATED VALUE in drawing while practicing how to control their tones while shading.

• In all other areas, the student must press down hard to create a “velvety” texture with their colored pencil.

ART LESSON

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STEP 1: VALUE SCALE

Control your pencil, don’t let your pencil control you!

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STEP 2: DESIGN A SQUARE!

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• Quilts are a great way to teach symmetry!

• Quilts are a way to learn about geometric shapes!

• Quilts can teach you about fractions!• Other lesson extensions:

TANGRAMS!

QUILTS AND GEOMETRY!

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VOILA! A BEAUTIFUL PAPER QUILT IS BORN!

Resource: 300 Paper- Pieced Quilt Blocks by Carol Doak