On this day in 1970, native New Yorker Lou Reed, front man of the pioneering rock band the Velvet Underground, gave his final performance with the band. Velvet Underground’s four studio albums have been widely influential for the past four decades, inspiring artists who weren’t even born at the time of the records’ release.
This machine pieced silk velvet and satin Scrap Fans Crazy quilt was made by an unknown Connecticut quiltmaker. It was documented at the Massacoh Plantation in 1995 during the Connecticut Quilt Search Project. There are more than 2,400 quilt records in The Quilt Index that list velvet as the fabric type.
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Source:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lou-reed-plays-his-last-show-with-the-velvet-underground
Posted by Amy E. Milne
Executive Director, Quilt Alliance
amy.milne@quiltalliance.org