Copyrights on the Selvedge quilt

Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell

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

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Bold Women

Starting in 1963, Jean Mitchell designed and painstakingly sewed dozens of quilts. This quilt uses the “Log Cabin” pattern and is made from parts of commercially produced fabrics that are usually discarded or hidden. Mitchell began collecting the copyrights printed on the edges of her quilt fabrics in the 1970s. She boldly utilizes what others throw away or ignore to create something new and unexpected.

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.