Copyrights on the Selvedge quilt, Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell

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Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell, Copyrights on the Selvedge quilt
Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell, Copyrights on the Selvedge quilt
Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell
Copyrights on the Selvedge quilt
2009
Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell, artist
1931–2023
Copyrights on the Selvedge quilt, 2009
Where object was made: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Material/technique: quilting; knotting; cotton; embroidering; appliqué; piecing
Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 165.1 x 123.2 cm
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 48 1/2 x 65 in
Credit line: Gift of Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell and Bill
Accession number: 2013.0176
On display: Marshall Balcony
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Exhibition Label: "Personal Geometry: Quilts by Yoshiko Jinzenji and Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell," Feb-2014, Susan Earle and Cassandra Mesick The artist began saving the copyrights that were printed on the selvedge of her quilt fabrics in the early 1970s. She decided it was time to put them together into a Log Cabin quilt design in 2009. The Log Cabin pattern had been the first one that she used, back in 1963 when she began making quilts. It is fascinating to see the different copyrights from fabrics made into a beautiful and informative quilt rather than hidden or discarded.