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| A soldier's belongings |
Whilst we toured the historic Manassas battlefields with Dominique & Warren, I couldn’t help but zoom into the soldiers’ belongings set up under a tree as they might have been in 1861-1865. Yes of course, there was a quilt! It resembled our waggas in a way and appeared to be made of wool tailoring samples. I was on a guided tour so didn’t have time to ask questions but managed a photo or two. It got me thinking about practical quilts, including those made for & by men, and what they were used for. The chances of these most basic of our craft to have survived are slim unlike “good” quilts that were kept locked away at home.
It was great timing to have the AFAM exhibition so that I could explore Civil War Quilts and began to see another side to this craft – so many layers of meaning, so moving and so humble.
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| A Soldier's Kit |
