this is my favorite textile piece within the J. B. Speed exhibition; pieced from courduroy scraps from a Sears created (and manufactured near Gee's Bend); this color was popular during the period when local factories churned out pillows by SEARS for the American home shopper to coordinate their textiles with their kitchen appliance colors of the post-I-Love-Lucy 50s. Scraps were given to the guilters in the area who naturally turned them into lush pieced bedcovers. Thank you industrial waste; sometimes it benefits our culture in indirect ways. We are still told to go shopping to save our economy 60 years after the birth of the mall, America's Home Culture.
this is my favorite textile piece within the J. B. Speed exhibition; pieced from courduroy scraps from a Sears created (and manufactured near Gee's Bend); this color was popular during the period when local factories churned out pillows by SEARS for the American home shopper to coordinate their textiles with their kitchen appliance colors of the post-I-Love-Lucy 50s. Scraps were given to the guilters in the area who naturally turned them into lush pieced bedcovers. Thank you industrial waste; sometimes it benefits our culture in indirect ways. We are still told to go shopping to save our economy 60 years after the birth of the mall, America's Home Culture.
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