'Crazy Quilts and Mad Women' Virtual Pop-Up Opens

'Crazy Quilts and Mad Women' Virtual Pop-Up Opens

May 1, 2020

Arising in the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, the high-style crazy quilt trend incorporated motifs from Japanese art and decor, English embroidery, and fairyland, among others. Like many textiles, however, the legacy of the crazy quilt is complicated. Women were urged by magazines to create crazy quilts, the more elaborate the better, yet they were mocked in newspapers and periodicals for doing so.

We hope you will enjoy our new virtual pop-up exhibit, “Crazy Quilts and Mad Women.” Click here to view it now.

And tune in at 4:30 p.m. CDT today on Facebook and YouTube for a full lecture on the subject, presented by Sarah Walcott, the pop-up's curator and International Quilt Museum collections manager .