1985 Lisa Noel Coleman's "Bedsprings" Quilt
date: label: date made
content: 1985
name: label: maker
content: Coleman, Lisa Noel
notes: label: Description
content: Pieced quilt by Lisa Noel Coleman, titled "Bedsprings", made in 1985. Pieced, stenciled, and dyed cotton quilt representing a discarded mattress box spring, in off white, reds, turquoise, and black. The background stripes and coil images on the quilt were screen printed with simple hand-cut paper stencils. Vintage upholstery fabric with a button print was vat dyed and combined with other commercial prints and solids to complete the piece. Machine stitched, some hand quilting, 3 stitches/inch. Of the quilt the artist says, "I was inspired by seeing the rusty bedsprings sometimes abandoned in city alleys and thinking they would make a nice structure for vines in my garden. And I would think of the actual life witnessed by the springs." "Bedsprings" was exhibited at the Missoula Art Museum in "Contemporary Quilts by American Artists" invitational in April-June 1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: web subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert Kasal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0034.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0034
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0034.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Quilt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabrics, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 96 in x 77 in; 244 cm x 196 cm