Quilt Reading
Rachel Ivy Clarke
2010
16″x16″
Quilt Alliance New From Old Contest
Materials:
Machine pieced patchwork from recycled textiles; machine quilted.
Artist’s Statement:
What better transition from old into new than vintage fabrics and discarded industry samples (which ordinarily would have been sent to a landfill) recycled and reclaimed into this new quilt, which employs traditional historical patchwork techniques to create a QR code; a modern, cell-phone readable barcode with the ability to store text, phone numbers, URLs and other data. Users with a camera phone and cod-reading software would scan this piece to discover that it reads “quilts.”
This quilt was featured in “Cross switch: Stitching gets technical – in pictures,” The Guardian, June 15, 2011.
QA members can watch Rachel Ivy Clarke’s workshop, “An Archive of Your Own: Using Spreadsheets to Describe and Catalog Your Quilts” in your Member Portal/Video & Audio Recordings/QTM 2024 Recordings.
