is a fairly new art expression born of a deep abiding love for the distinctive landscape, architecture, and tri-cultural heritage in the Southwestern corner of the United States of America.
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SOUTHWEST STYLE QUILTING By: Mary-Jo McCarthy |
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Southwest style quilt designing is a fairly new art expression born of a deep abiding love for the distinctive landscape, architecture, and tri-cultural heritage in the Southwestern corner of the United States of America. |
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Some of this country's oldest architecture sits in the heart of New Mexico, a harmonic blend of Hispanic and Native American resources. A burnt orange, brown mud covers flat roofed homes throughout the Southwest, a carrying forth of the simplistic dwellings built, and still inhabited, by the Pueblo Indians, centuries ago, in Taos, New Mexico. |
| The drama of the high desert landscape is abundant in traditional Navajo Indian rug weavings, something today's quilt designers have found adapts beautifully into strip-pieced quilts and wallhangings. |
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The exquisite baskets woven by Hopi Indians and intricate designs painted on clay pots by Isleta and San Il Defanso Pueblo Indians are all carried over into new themes in applique quilt designs by several pattern designers who live throughout the West. |
| As more people have moved to the Southwest in recent years, a desire to capture the art, architecture and and culture of this mystical land has brought forth a new trade in furniture design, home accessories, crafts and quilting. |
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| Most of the pattern designs shown here, are less than ten years old, but draw on a remarkable experience of nature's breathtaking beauty and a culture that is over 2,000 years in the making. To see more of the enchanting Southwest quilting designs being introduced to quilters all over the world, visit our on-line catalog, "Make It SW Style" at http://www.swdecoratives.com |
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